MaoLang

A language with rules you won't know, until it's too late

Inspired by Mao, a card game where the rules are not known, added randomly other players, and learnt by trial and error, MaoLang strives to be the most confusing language, with a dynamic syntax that changes upon each different compilation

A valid hello world in Mao could be:

auto message is "Hello, World";
println(message);

Or maybe it could be

$val = "Hello!".

cond (:) alonside not :( ):
    puts(val).
end

Or maybe even

new msg equals "Hey :D" done
Console.WriteLine msg done

The interpretter chooses at random each time by generating a seed and creating lexer, parser and evaluation rules each time you attempt to run your program.

These rules are chaotic, but consistent. Within a single attempt to run a program, variable assignment will always be var and printing will always be print, and as long as that file remains the exact same (Sha256 that ignores whitespace) those rules will remain. This means a valid mao program will always be valid, it's just excruciatingly difficult without brute force to find a valid program to begin.

Installation

You can install the mao interpretter by running

cargo install maolang

In your terminal, it can then be run on a file using the

mao {file}.mao

Command, good luck.