getting started - embedding guide
noun: game, art
adjective: entertaining, artistic, amusing
verb: to amuse, to play, to have fun
(from toki pona)
musi is an artistic programming language for embedding into projects and creating cohesive domain specific languages.
musi is pretty heavily inspired by lua, although still feels quite different from it.
yes! musi is intended to be used to make domain specific languages, which means that its syntax should be comfortable* to read.
*comfort with a language's syntax is subjective. musi cannot be perfect, after all!
musi can be modified using the v api, although i am planning to make c bindings so that musi can be added to basically any project, for any purpose!
so why does that make it artistic?
honestly, i do not know! i liked the name "musi" and because this language is more of a "canvas" for people to use for their own purposes than a general-purpose language, i felt like it could work well.
if you want to install musi for cli usage, you will need to compile from source. luckily that is really easy with v:
git clone https://github.com/emmathemartian/musi
cd musi
#v -prod src/main.v
v src/main.v
# executable is at src/main, you can symlink it somewhere on path now if you want:
ln -s $(pwd)/src/main ~/.local/bin/musicompiling with
-prodcauses a c error. i am looking into this!