Introduction

Melon is a dynamically typed, interpreted programming language. It attempts to combine the best features of popular high-level languages in something that feels modern but is still small and light enough to be easy to embed in your project. It's inspired mainly by ES6 JavaScript, Lua, Wren, Python and Ruby.

It looks like this:

let Language = {
    create = |name|  => {
        return { name = name } @ Language;
    },
    
    getName = -> {
        return this.name;
    }
};

let Melon = {
    create = => {
        return { } @ Melon;
    },
    
    helloWorld = -> {
        io.print("Hello world " .. this->getName() .. "!");
    }
} @ Language.create("Melon");

let melon = Melon.create();
melon->helloWorld();

Features

A simple but functional module system
Good for soft real-time applications such as games: it sports an incremental generational GC
Native integer and array types allow for faster code
Support for bytecode generation, you don't need to distribute your source files
Full support for operator overloading using ES6-style symbols
Prototype based: doesn't enforce the OOP paradigm while still making it possible
Dynamic typing without implicit conversions: lower chance of unintended behaviour
Entirely written in C, the number of dependencies can be counted on one hand
Extensive unit tests for both the VM and language

Features#

Features