Getting Started

Nifty is a simple and easy language to get started with. Let's go!

Downloading Nifty

Download nifty for your platform here.

If you want to build and install nifty yourself see the README in the repo for instructions.

Syntax Highlighting

We have a plugin for Visual Studio Code that will make developing nifty programs nicer. Search for an extension called nifty-lang and install it. There is also a vim theme available on github as well.

Hello World

Once everything is installed let's make a simple nifty program to make sure it's installed correctly.

1mkdir hello
2cd hello
3nifty new

Follow the interactive project creation dialog.

Nifty will generate a file called build.toml and a file called hello.nifty (or whatever you decided to call it) which should look like this:

To build and run the project use:

1nifty run hello

This will build and then run the hello target in build.toml.

Because hello is the default target in the project you can also run it with:

1nifty run

Or even just:

1nifty

By default nifty will try to build and run the default target in build.toml when called.

If you just want to build the project use:

1nifty build hello

Comments

Comments are sismilar to comments in other c-like languages. Nifty allows for nested comments.

Nifty style multiline comments require one less key press. I did say I'm lazy.