Swahiliplus/Swahiliplus

A bilingual (Kiswahili/English), security-first programming language that compiles to native code. Every keyword has a Swahili word and an English alias — write real software in the language you think in. Website · Playground · Docs · Download · Examples # Swahili+ A **bilingual, statically-typed, security-first** programming language. Every keyword, type, builtin and module has a **Kiswahili word and an English alias that lex to the same token** — so a program can be written entirely in Kiswahili, entirely in English, or mixed, and it means exactly the same thing. There is a test holding two such programs to byte-identical output. ```swahili tumia njia kazi salimu(jina: Maandishi) -> Maandishi { rudisha "Habari, {jina}!" } kazi kuu() { andika(salimu("dunia")) andika(njia.jina_msingi("hati/ripoti.sw")) } ``` The exact same program, written in English ```swahili import path function greet(name: Text) -> Text { return "Habari, {name}!" } function main() { print(greet("dunia")) print(path.basename("hati/ripoti.sw")) } ``` > **Status: 0.9.0 beta.** The language, toolchain and standard library are > complete and tested. Project status > is deliberately blunt about what is *not* finished. Not for production use until > 1.0.0 — some Kiswahili keywords are still being reviewed and may change. File extension `.sw` · toolchain binary `swahiliplus`. --- ## Contents - Why Swahili+ exists - Highlights - Try it online - Install - Using it - The language, briefly - Standard library & GUI - Editor support - Project status — where it actually stands - Documentation - Contributing - Community - License ## Why Swahili+ exists Three commitments, in order. **1. Bilingual, not "translated keywords".** The AST is language-neutral, the converter round-trips either spelling losslessly (`tafsiri`), and diagnostics are bilingual with a stable code you can look up offline (`eleza E040`). Learn in the language you think in, then pick up the industry's English vocabulary for free. **2. Security is a type-system feature, not a library.** Two ideas live in the checker itself: - **Taint.** Anything from outside the program — a file's contents, an environment variable, …