QuickNIL - jpbubble/NIL-isn-t-Lua GitHub Wiki

QuickNIL is a tool which can be found in this GitHub repository. The program is written with the quote above in mind. QuickNIL is only set up to enable you to quickly write some code in NIL and to see what it does, and that's all it can do. It should never be used for actual projects (although if there's a desire for it, I can always make a more expanded version which can be used for actual projects), but it's great for prototyping.

Since I agree completely with the words Dennis Ritchie (the main developer of the C programming language) spoke, and actually that's how I learned to code in all the languages I know. Just writing some (simple) programs in it and see what would happen. QuickNIL has been set up precisely with this concept in mind, and once I'd write complete beginner's tutorials for NIL, QuickNIL would play a big role in them. :)

QuickNIL has been written in C#, and since it only uses the console, and NLua and all required dependencies are actually all in one folder it should work on any Windows computer, and on Mac and Linux it should work if you have Mono installed (although then you must type: mono QuickNIL.exe MyScript.nil but I guess that was obvious).

Please note that on the moment I wrote this document NIL is still pretty young, and still maturing, so still bound to change a lot. The releases can therefore easily get behind on the state NIL is now in. Best is to check when Wiki pages about a certain part of NIL were created if some of the things explained in there, do not work in QuickNIL, as it's possible it's already outdated).