Topic: Spry

When I started out implementing my own language in Nim I named it “Ni” without that much thought actually. It was a pun on “smaller than Nim” (obviously one letter shorter!) and of course with a reference to Monty Python.

So… Ni has almost reached the point where I can see objects appearing. The following describes the design I currently have in mind, read it and tell me what you think so I can scrap it and start over ;)

So… my little Ni language got some attention since it was first on Hackernews, then TheRegister, all over Twitter and also Reddit.

This article describes some core parts of the current implementation of the Ni (now known as Spry) language. It’s not a tutorial, introduction or manual. It’s in fact kinda incoherent - but so is Ni :)

Ni is my own little language heavily influenced by Smalltalk but also other sources like Rebol, Forth, Lisp, Self and Nim. Ni is a bit strange, but it’s not academic and really meant to become something useful.