Chloride / Argon Documentation

This is community documentation for Argon, the programming language, as implemented by Chloride, its C-based interpreter (a bytecode compiler + virtual machine).

If you already know a scripting language like Python or JavaScript, most of this will feel familiar. Argon uses do blocks instead of { }, and functions are declared as let name(args) = do ... .

Note: This documentation is written from reading the interpreter's source code and test suite, since the project doesn't yet have complete official docs. If something here looks wrong, trust the source code (and please fix this doc!).

Start here

• Installation
• Your first program
• Running the REPL

Language guide

• Variables and let
• Operators
• Control flow
  • if / else
  • while loops
  • for loops and iterators
  • break and continue
• Functions
• Strings
• Arrays
• Dictionaries and tuples
• Classes and objects
• Errors and exceptions
• Modules and import

Standard library

• term — printing and input
• maths
• random
• path
• json
• file
• date
• time
• network
• threading
• regex

Tooling

• Command line usage
• The REPL
• Building from source

License

Chloride is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (or later). See the project's LICENSE file for details.