# What is Nit?

Nit is an object-oriented programming language. The goal of Nit is to propose a robust statically typed programming language where structure is not a pain.

So, what does the famous hello world program look like, in Nit?

print 'Hello, World!'

# Feature Highlights

Usability

Nit's goal is to be usable by real programmers for real projects

• KISS principle
• Script-like language without verbosity nor cryptic statements
• Painless static types: static typing should help programmers
• Efficient development, efficient execution, efficient evolution.

Robustness

Nit will help you to write bug-free programs

• Strong static typing
• No more NullPointerException

Object-Oriented

Nit's guideline is to follow the most powerful OO principles

• Everything is an object
• Multiple inheritance
• Open classes
• Virtual types

# Getting Started

Get Nit from its Git repository:

$ git clone http://nitlanguage.org/nit.git

Build the compiler (may be long):

$ cd nit
$ make

Compile a program:

$ bin/nitc examples/hello_world.nit

Execute the program:

$ ./hello_world