🧬 Xon

Xon is a high-performance, concurrent scripting language designed for automation, systems programming, and rapid tool development.

Built with an optimized Bytecode VM, Xon features modern functional primitives, first-class closures, and native multi-threading.

✨ Features

• 🚀 High Performance: Optimized Bytecode VM written in Go.
• 🧵 Concurrency: Native spawn keyword for effortless multi-threading.
• 🔒 Stateful Closures: Capture and mutate lexical variables with ease.
• 🧩 Functional Power: Pipeline operators (|>), map, filter, and reduce.
• 🛠️ Automation: Control mouse, keyboard, and screen natively.
• 🖼️ GUI Maker: Native Windows GUI with gui.run() — labels, buttons, inputs, callbacks.
• 📂 Modern Tooling: Built-in disassembler (-d) and standalone compiler.
• 🎨 Editor Support: Dedicated VS Code Extension for syntax highlighting.

🚀 Quick Start

Installing Xon (Windows)

Build and install (requires Go):

.\install.ps1

Builds xon.exe and installs to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Xon. Custom directory: .\install.ps1 -InstallDir "C:\Tools\Xon". Uninstall: .\install.ps1 -Uninstall.

Build from source (manual)

1. Build:

   go build -o xon.exe .

2. Run a script:

   ./xon.exe script.xn

3. Interactive Mode (REPL):

   ./xon.exe

📜 Example: Stateful Closures

set makeCounter = fn() {
    set c = 0;
    return fn() {
        c = c + 1;
        return c;
    };
};

set count = makeCounter();
out count(); // 1
out count(); // 2

📜 Example: Concurrency

set worker = fn(id) {
    out "Worker ${id} starting...";
    sleep(1000);
    out "Worker ${id} finished.";
};

spawn worker(1);
spawn worker(2);
out "Main thread continuing...";

📜 Example: GUI Maker

Native Windows GUI (labels, inputs, buttons, callbacks).

gui.runWindow("Hello from Xon!", 400, 200, [
    gui.label("Enter your name:"),
    gui.input("nameInput", ""),
    gui.button("Say Hello", fn() {
        set name = gui.get("nameInput");
        if (name == "") { name = "World"; }
        os.alert("Hello", "Hello, " + name + "!");
    })
]);

Widgets: gui.label(text), gui.button(text, onClick), gui.input(id, default), gui.textarea(id, default). Use gui.get(id) to read input values. Click Quit to close.

🛠️ Built-in Modules

• std: Arrays, Functional primitives.
• os: Automation (Mouse, Keyboard, Alerts).
• gui: GUI Maker — windows, labels, buttons, inputs (Windows only).
• fs: File System operations.
• http: Native Web requests.
• json: Seamless JSON encoding/decoding.

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Created with 🧬 Xon. Happy Scripting!