• Dynamic and strong typing
• Everything is an (expando) object
• Prototypal inheritance
• First-class functions
• CLR interoperability
• Cross-platform (Windows, OSX, Linux)

I don’t update the Mac OSX and Windows installers frequently, except for major releases. So to access latest features, you should follow these steps:

• Fork or download code
• Build (with VS.NET or MonoDevelop, if you’re on Mac OSX)
• If you use Windows, run

  [code_folder]/src/Bike.Console/bin/Debug/bike.exe" -h="[code_folder]" bike_file.bk

• If you use Mac OSX, run

  /usr/bin/mono "[code_folder]/src/Bike.Console/bin/Debug/bike.exe" -h="[code_folder]" bike_file.bk

Notes:
- You should configure NotePad++, TextMate or whatever code editor to run bike based on the above commands
- NotePad++ users can use this file to enable syntax highlighting (View > User-Defined Dialog > Import)
- I will upload a TextMate bundle later

• Prerequisite: Mono 2.10.2 (not tested yet with earlier versions)
• Download bike.pkg in installers/osx
• Run bike.pkg to install Bike
• Open the Terminal and type the followings

  cat > hello.bk
  println('Hello World');
  Ctrl-D
  bike.sh hello.bk

Notes:
- If you didn’t install Mono or Bike to their default folders, modify /usr/local/bin/bike.sh to use correct paths
- If you want to double-click to execute a Bike file in Finder, associate the .bk extension to Applications/bike/bin/bike.app

• Prerequisite: .NET 4.0
• Download bike.exe in installers/win
• Run bike.exe to extract and install Bike
• Create a file named hello.bk with this content

  println('Hello World');

• In the cmd, type bike hello.bk to execute it. Alternatively, you can double-click a Bike file in Windows Explorer.

The setup program also makes the following changes to your system:
- BIKE_HOME env variable pointing to the installation folder
- Append [installation_folder]bin/ to PATH env variable
- Associate .bk extension with bike.exe

In OSX, Bike is installed to Applications/bike. In Windows, Bike is installed to Program Files/bike. The structure of the Bike folder is as follows:

• bin: binaries and dependencies and
  • bike.app (OSX only): the app you can used to associate with .bk files so that they are executable via Finder
  • bike.action (OSX only): the Automator action code used to create bike.app, feel free to customize
  • bike.sh (OSX only): the shell script used to run Bike (the same file also exists in /usr/local/bin)
• lib
  • src
    • core: Library source code
    • test: Test for library
    • tools: Bike doc and unit tools
  • doc: API documentation
• samples: Sample programs, most notable is spec.bk
• resources (Windows only)
  • np.xml: Syntax highlighting file for NotePad++ (in NotePad++, select View > User-Defined Dialog > Import)
• LICENSE

• Want to learn more about Bike? Take a look at sample code in samples. The file spec.bk should give you a good overview.
• Want to contribute? There are many things you can do to help:
  • Implement features (see Issues tab)
  • Suggest new features
  • Report or fix bugs
  • Document code or features
  • Add unit test cases

• duylam

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