Nova Language

Nova is simple but powerful and a beginner-friendly coding language made by me (KerbalMissile). This specific project does include a basic GUI compiler that translates Nova code into C# then uses Window's default C# compiler to turn it into .exe or .dll files for use.

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Features

• Natural Syntax: Nova uses keywords like have (variables), put (print), when (if), and otherwise (else) to make code easier to read.
• GUI Support: Nova also can be used to make extremely basic UI's / Apps using basic code. A basic UI can be done in about 15 lines of code excluding spaces or comments.
• GUI Compilation: For compilation, Nova uses a GUI written in Python that can be used to compile it into .dll's or .exe's, it first converts to C# then uses Window's default C# compiler to convert it into .dll's or .exe's
• Icon Handling: Nova uses .ico for the icons displayed in UI's but will have automatic translation to .ico's from PNG's in the future.
• Open Source: Licensed under the GNU GPL v3 to keep Nova free and open for the community. It isn't too complex and I didn't think it needed to be more private, I would love as many suggestions or contributions as possible!

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Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Python 3.7+ required to run the Nova compiler GUI (nova_compiler.py).
• .NET SDK or .NET Framework required to compile the generated C# code. Make sure that csc.exe is installed and accessible.
• Pillow Python Library for the automatic PNG to ICO conversion, not working so it is a soft dependency for now. You can install it using pip install pillow

Running The Compiler

• Place your .nova files in a folder.
• Run the compiler GUI (nova_compiler.py)
• Choose the folder containing your .nova files
• Select the target output type (.exe or .dll)
• Select one or more .nova files and click Compile Selected.
• The compiled files will appear in the same folder

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Writing Nova Code

Nova use a clean natural syntax, here's a Hello, World! example:

put("Hello, World!")

For more info and documentaion on how to code in Nova look at the wiki.

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Icon Handling

• You can specify an icon with set_icon("path/to/icon.ico), png support will be added soon.
• PNG icons will be converted to ICO later on but for now it doesn't work and you need .ico's
• Make sure the icon payh is correct relative to your .nova file.

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License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3)

You are free to use, modify, and distribute Nova under the terms of the license, which requires any derivative works also remain open source uner GPLv3.

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Contributing

Contributions, bug reports, and feature requests are welcome! Feel free to pen issues, or submit pull requests on GitHub.

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Contact

For questions or help, open an issue on the GitHub repo or reach out to me, KerbalMissile. You can find me on Discord, username is kerbalmissile, aswell.

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Thank you for looking at or maybe even trying out Nova!