Welcome to the Gorilla Programming Language!

What is Gorilla?

Gorilla is a tiny, dynamically typed, flexible programming language, written in Golang

Gorilla is built to make simple, flexible, well-understood programs in a relatively fast way.

Why should I use Gorilla?

• It is gorilla-crawling-blaze-ish fast compared to other dynamic, interpreted languages
  • According to a fibonacci benchmark, Gorilla is 36% faster than Python
  • Gorilla is compiled into Gorilla Bytecode
• It is dynamic and flexible
  • You don’t have to worry about all those semicolons or modules anymore!
  • Gorilla has Python/Ruby style assignment expression: name = value, which looks clean
  • Gorilla also has concise operators like array <- item, which obviously puts item to the end of array
• While it is dynamic, you can still write type-safe code
  • 99% of Gorilla’s builtin functions are type-safe
  • Gorilla has builtin support for type annotations and assertions for functions

• Learn Gorilla by Examples

• Gorilla Language Reference

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Setting Up Gorilla

Warning: gorilla is still not production-ready, and it still contains some bugs, please report them if you found one!

There are 3 ways to set up Gorilla:

1. If you are on Windows 10 (and you trust I don’t spread viruses), download the latest binary executable
2. Try Online: Gorilla Playground
3. Download Golang (recommend v1.5), git pull https://github.com/SnowballSH/Gorilla and go build

Hello, world!

The simplest way to write a Hello World program in Gorilla:

println("Hello, world!")
# Hello, world!

Note: print prints without a new line and println prints with a new line

• Learn Gorilla by Examples

• Gorilla Language Reference