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Zephir is an open source programming language created in 2013 by Andres Gutierrez.

Source code:

git clone https://github.com/phalcon/zephir

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Zephir is a compiled high level language aimed to the creation of C-extensions for PHP.

Zephir website
Zephir is developed on GitHub and has 3,128 stars
Zephir docs
There are at least 91 Zephir repos on GitHub
file extensions for Zephir include zep
Zephir on Twitter
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 127 users using Zephir in 140 repos on GitHub
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Zephir
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Zephir
zephir-lang.com was registered in 2013

Example from Linguist:

/**
 * CBLOCK tests
 * asfas
 */

%{
// top statement before namespace, add to after headers
#define MAX_FACTOR 40
}%

namespace Test;

%{
// top statement before class, add to after headers
// test include .h
#include "kernel/require.h"
}%

%{

// c implement fibonacci
static long fibonacci(long n) {
        if (n < 2) return n;
        else return fibonacci(n - 2) + fibonacci(n - 1);
}

}%

class Cblock
{
    public function testCblock1()
    {
        int a = 0;

        %{
            a = MAX_FACTOR;
        }%

        return a;
    }

    public function testCblock2()
    {
            long a = 0;

            %{
                a = fibonacci(MAX_FACTOR);
            }%

            return a;
    }

}

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Integers	✓		// [0-9]+
Floats	✓		// [0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9]+([eE][0-9]+)?[fd]?
Hexadecimals	✓		// 0x[0-9a-fA-F]+
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* */	/* A comment */
Comments	✓		// A comment
Line Comments	✓	//	// A comment
Semantic Indentation	X

Zephir - Programming language

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