Kiwi 🥝

Kiwi is a modern, lightweight scripting language built for expressiveness and utility.

Getting Started

• Introduction to Kiwi
  • Building Kiwi
  • Using the Kiwi CLI
  • REPL
  • Running Scripts & Execution Modes
  • kdb — Kiwi Debugger

Language Reference

• Variables
• Types
• Type Hints
• Operators
• Keywords
• Comments
• Docstrings

Functions

• Functions
• Lambdas

Control Flow

• Control Structures — if, case, when, ternary, truthiness
• Loops — for, while, repeat, break, next
• Generators
• Error Handling

Collections & Data Types

• Lists
• Ranges
• Hashmaps
• Strings
• Dates

Object-Oriented Programming

• Structs
• Abstract Structs
• Operator Overloading

Modules & I/O

• Packages
• Events
• Builtins
• Console I/O

Standard Library

• collections — Specialized collection types, including Heap and Set.
• compress — Functions for compression and decompression.
• console — An interface that wraps core I/O operations.
• crypto — Cryptographic functions like MD5 and SHA-2.
• csv — Functions for parsing CSV data.
• env — For interacting with environment variables.
• fio — Functions for file system operations.
• http — Functions for HTTP/HTTPS requests.
• iter — An explicit iterator pattern for safely traversing lists.
• math — Common mathematical functions and utilities.
• path — Contains the definition for the Path struct.
• reflector — Reflection tools, including Callable.
• socket / tls — Low-level asynchronous TCP and TLS networking.
• stdin — Functions for reading from standard input.
• string — String manipulation and transformation utilities.
• sys — For executing shell commands.
• task — Asynchronous task management, including Channel.
• tester — A simple unit testing framework.
• time — Time and date utilities.