Zamin Programming Language

Zamin is a simple, expressive scripting language with a Rust-based interpreter. It combines modern language features -- closures, pattern matching, string interpolation, and a module system -- with a lightweight bytecode VM, optional GPU acceleration, and a built-in project manager.

print("Hello, Zamin!");

Documentation

Full Documentation -- language guide, standard library reference, GUI toolkit guide, OpenCV guide, and more.

Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/young-developer90/zamin.git
cd zamin
cargo build --release
./target/release/zamin run examples/hello.zamin

Start the REPL

./target/release/zamin repl

Zamin> let x = 42;
Zamin> print(f"the answer is {x}");
the answer is 42
Zamin> func fib(n) { if n <= 1 { return n; } return fib(n-1) + fib(n-2); }
Zamin> print(fib(20));
6765

Examples

Fibonacci

func fibonacci(n) {
    if n <= 1 { return n; }
    return fibonacci(n - 1) + fibonacci(n - 2);
}
for i in 0..10 { print(f"fib({i}) = {fibonacci(i)}"); }

HTTP Request

let resp = http.get("https://api.github.com/repos/young-developer90/zamin");
print(resp.status);

File I/O

fs.write("hello.txt", "Hello, Zamin!");
let content = fs.read("hello.txt");
print(content);

GUI (Linux with Luna)

sudo apt install libgtk-4-dev
cargo build --release --features luna

let win = luna.Leo("App", 400, 300);
let label = luna.Label(win, "Hello from Luna!");
luna.pack(label);
let btn = luna.Button(win, "Click", func() {
    luna.config(label, "text", "Clicked!");
});
luna.pack(btn);
luna.mainloop(win);

CLI

Performance

Zamin's bytecode VM competes well with CPython on integer-heavy workloads, thanks to raw byte dispatch, specialized integer opcodes, and a peephole optimizer:

Zamin excels at tight integer loops — often matching or exceeding CPython — but is slower on string and list operations due to the overhead of its bytecode interpreter. Benchmarks run on the same machine using time for wall-clock measurement.

Build Options

# Default (no optional features)
cargo build --release

# With OpenCV
cargo build --release --features opencv

# With Luna (Linux GUI)
cargo build --release --features luna

# With Python interop
cargo build --release --features python

License

MIT -- see LICENSE.