nova

nova is the toolchain of Nova, a statically typed programming language with type inference, pattern matching and async functions. One binary makes, runs, builds and tests projects, and it is also Nova's formatter (nova fmt), language server (nova lsp), package manager (nova add, nova publish) and documentation generator (nova doc).

Install

From crates.io:

cargo install nova-cli --locked

--locked builds with the dependency versions the release was tested with. The install also builds Nova's runtime library and embeds it in nova, so the installed binary needs nothing beside it.

Or a ready-built nova from the latest GitHub release, checked against the release's SHA256SUMS. On Linux (x86_64) and macOS, into ~/.nova/bin:

curl -sSfL https://github.com/Sakeerin/nova/releases/latest/download/install.sh | sh

On Windows, into %USERPROFILE%\.nova\bin, which the script adds to your PATH:

irm https://github.com/Sakeerin/nova/releases/latest/download/install.ps1 | iex

What it needs

nova run needs nothing else. nova build and nova test write native executables, so they need a C linker: cc on Linux and macOS, and the Visual Studio Build Tools on Windows.

Start

nova new hello
cd hello
nova run

Links

• The repository: the language's documentation, the changelog and the releases.
• The VS Code extension is Nova by sakeerin, on the Marketplace and Open VSX (code --install-extension sakeerin.nova), and each release attaches it as nova-vscode-<version>.vsix.

The other nova-* crates on crates.io are nova's own libraries. Their API is internal and changes with every release.

Licensed under either of the MIT licence or the Apache License, Version 2.0, at your option.