Skip to content

Samarium

Samarium is a dynamic interpreted language transpiled to Python. Samarium, in its most basic form, doesn't use any digits or letters.

Here's a Hello, World! program written in Samarium:

"Hello, World!"!;

Installation

pip

pip install samarium

AUR

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/samarium.git && cd samarium && makepkg -sirc
or use your favorite AUR helper.

Using Samarium

You can run Samarium programs with samarium program.sm. samarium-debug may be used instead, which will first print out the intermediary Python code that the Samarium program is transpiled into, before executing it.

Short Long Description
-c <cmd> --command <cmd> Can be used to execute Samarium code from the string cmd,
directly in the terminal. cmd can be one or more statements
separated by semicolons as usual. Note that the last statement
of cmd will be printed if it does not end in a semicolon.
-h --help Shows the help message
-v --version Prints Samarium version

There is also a VSCode syntax highlighting extension for Samarium, which can be found here. Its source code can be found here.

Credits

Samarium was inspired by several languages, including brainfuck, Rust, and Python.

Special thanks to:

  • tetraxile for helping with design choices and writing the docs
  • MithicSpirit for making an AUR package for Samarium
  • DarviL82 for fixing some issues
  • Endercheif for making the documentation look fancy, helping with design choices, and adding partial Python Interoperability

If you have any questions, or would like to get in touch, join my Discord server!