Wren - Programming language

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Wren is an open source programming language created in 2013 by Bob Nystrom.

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git clone https://github.com/munificent/wren

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Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language.

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Wren is developed on GitHub and has 6,832 stars
There are at least 8 Wren repos on GitHub
Wren is written in Markdown, C, Python, HTML, XML, Lua, Ruby, JavaScript, Dart, CSS, Pascal, Make, YAML, Bourne shell, SVG
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 3 users using Wren in 3 repos on GitHub
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Example from the web:

System.print("Hello, world!")

class Wren {
  flyTo(city) {
    System.print("Flying to %(city)")
  }
}

var adjectives = Fiber.new {
  ["small", "clean", "fast"].each {|word| Fiber.yield(word) }
}

while (!adjectives.isDone) System.print(adjectives.call())

Example from hello-world:

IO.print("Hello World")

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Print() Debugging	✓		IO.print
Comments	✓	// A comment
Line Comments	✓	// A comment	//
Semantic Indentation	X