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Welcome to the ArkScript wiki!

Here you will find all the useful resources to start developing scripts in ArkScript.

Note: ArkScript and Ark are used as compatible terms in this wiki; both describe the same thing.

Language

Introduction

1. Using the command line
2. Comments
3. Numbers
4. Booleans
5. Strings
6. Lists
7. Variables
8. Displaying text in the terminal

Creating your first program

1. Understanding blocs
   • Shortcuts
2. Hello world

Control flow

1. Conditions
2. Loops

Functions and closures

1. Syntax of functions
2. Returning a value
3. Dynamic scopes
4. Closures

Importing code

Ark standard library

1. Mathematics
2. Comparison
3. Lists and strings
4. Miscellanous
5. IO

The Virtual Machine

Bytecode specification

Embedding

1. Adding Ark to your project
2. Using Ark
   • Adding your own functions in Ark
   • Details on the Value type
3. Creating plugins

Contributing

Building and installing

1. From source
2. From a release

Coding guidelines

1. Coding in Ark
2. Naming conventions

Projects using Ark

GameEngine2: A C++ game engine based on the SFML, providing multiple scripting languages (including ArkScript).
Arkscript-Calculator: A simple calculator in Ark.