1 Nit is a statically typed object-oriented programming language.
2 The goal of Nit is to propose a statically typed programming language where structure is not a pain.
4 Nit has a simple straightforward style and can usually be picked up quickly, particularly by anyone who has programmed before.
5 While object-oriented, it allows procedural styles.
7 The Nit Compiler (nitc) produces efficient machine language binaries.
11 * Pure Object-Oriented.
12 * Multiple Inheritance.
13 * Realist typing policy.
14 * Light and clear syntax.
19 * gcc http://gcc.gnu.org/
20 * ccache http://ccache.samba.org/ to improve recompilation
21 * libgc-dev http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/
22 * graphviz http://www.graphviz.org/ to enable graphes with the nitdoc tool
24 Those are available in most linux distributions
26 # sudo apt-get install build-essential ccache libgc-dev graphviz
28 Important files and directory:
30 benchmarks/ Script to bench the compilers
32 bin/nitc The Nit compiler
33 bin/nitg The new Nit compiler
34 bin/nit The Nit interpreter
35 bin/nitdoc The Nit autodoc
36 c_src/ C code of nitc (needed to bootstrap)
37 clib/ C code needed by nitc to compile programs
38 Changelog List of change between versions
39 contrib/ Various Nit programs (may or may not be useful)
41 examples/ Program examples written in Nit
42 LICENCE License of the software
43 misc/ Some additional file for commons text editors and tools
44 tests/ Non-regression test-suite
45 lib/ Nit standard library
46 Makefile Bootstrap the Nit tools
47 NOTICE List of the authors
49 src/ The Nit tool sources (written in Nit)
55 $ bin/nitc examples/hello_world.nit
61 http://www.nitlanguage.org