👨‍🚀 buzz

A small/lightweight statically typed scripting language written in Zig

Homepage — Discord

Features

• Small in size and complexity (just a bit more than Lua though)
• Statically typed
• Unambiguous
• No nonsense coercion
• Fibers
• JIT compilation with MIR
• Tooling
  • Generate doc from docblocks (in progress)
  • VS Code extension
    • Syntax highlighting
    • LSP (in progress)
    • Debugger and DAP (planned)

How to install

# install locally at ~/.local
zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe install -p ~/.local

# install globally at /usr/local
sudo zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe install -p /usr/local

Then, you can run buzz with buzz <myscript.buzz>. Remember to modify PATH to include the bin directory where it is installed. For example, export PATH=PATH:/home/xxx/.local/bin.

Additionally, install the VS Code extension to get syntax highlighting. If you don't use VS Code but your editor supports TextMate grammar files, you can use that.

How to build/develop

Requirements

• Since this is built with Zig, you should be able to build buzz on a wide variety of architectures even though this has only been tested on x86/M1.
• Linux or macOS (not much work is needed to make it work on Windows)
• libpcre (not libpcre2)
• libc
• mimalloc (can be turned off by building buzz with -Duse_mimalloc=false)
• zig master

Steps

1. Clone the project: git clone https://github.com/buzz-language/buzz <buzz_dir>
2. Checkout submodules: git submodule update --init
3. Build MIR:

cd mir
make

4. Have fun: zig build run -- <myscript.buzz>