Zephir

Zephir is a programming language created in 2013 by Andres Gutierrez.

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Zephir is a compiled high level language aimed to the creation of C-extensions for PHP.

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Zephir is developed on GitHub and has 3,128 stars
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There are at least 91 Zephir repos on GitHub
file extensions for Zephir include zep
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The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 127 users using Zephir in 140 repos on GitHub
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zephir-lang.com was registered in 2013
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Example from Linguist:

/**
 * CBLOCK tests
 * asfas
 */

%{
// top statement before namespace, add to after headers
#define MAX_FACTOR 40
}%

namespace Test;

%{
// top statement before class, add to after headers
// test include .h
#include "kernel/require.h"
}%

%{

// c implement fibonacci
static long fibonacci(long n) {
        if (n < 2) return n;
        else return fibonacci(n - 2) + fibonacci(n - 1);
}

}%

class Cblock
{
    public function testCblock1()
    {
        int a = 0;

        %{
            a = MAX_FACTOR;
        }%

        return a;
    }

    public function testCblock2()
    {
            long a = 0;

            %{
                a = fibonacci(MAX_FACTOR);
            }%

            return a;
    }

}

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Integers	✓		// [0-9]+
Floats	✓		// [0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9]+([eE][0-9]+)?[fd]?
Hexadecimals	✓		// 0x[0-9a-fA-F]+
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* */	/* A comment */
Comments	✓		// A comment
Line Comments	✓	//	// A comment
Semantic Indentation	X

Zephir - Programming language

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