Zinc

A small, GC'd, dynamically-typed scripting language with a bytecode VM and a gradual static type checker, for scripting around native extensions. It's a solo, opinionated pet project, built around one person's taste.

Overview

A guided tour of the language: variables, collections, control flow, functions, structs, and the type system — read start to finish.

Language Spec

The terse reference manual — grammar, operators, literal forms, and the exact rules, organized for lookup rather than reading straight through.

Extensions & ABI

How to write native .dll/.so/.dylib extensions in Odin, wrap a C library, and the frozen zinc_api ABI they build against.

Standard Library

Every global builtin, the auto-loaded prelude, all native modules, and every .zn library module — fully indexed and searchable.

Quick start

// hello.zn
println("Hello, world!")

// run it — the stdlib is embedded in the interpreter, no setup required
// $ zinc.exe hello.zn