The (un)-official programming language used exclusively by the knights who say ni.
For more context see below video (I claim no ownership):
The Ni rust runtime is almost identical to that of another esoteric programming language, which contains an expletive in the title.
Some may say that coding with Ni is about as efficient as cutting down the mightiest tree in a forrest with a herring. However, there is an elegance to it.
The runtime interpreter for ni configures a sequential storage array of bytes that has a single data pointer that can be incremented and decremented. Think of it as a long "tape" of bytes. There is also an instruction pointer that can be used to perform simple jumps of logic. Lastly, characters can be read from stdin and placed at the data pointer. They can then be written out to stdout as ASCII.
| Instruction | Description |
|---|---|
| Niii | If the byte value at the data pointer is zero, jump instruction pointer to end of matching niii statement. |
| niii | If the byte value at the data pointer is not zero, jump instruction pointer to the matching Niii statement. |
| Nii | Output the byte at the data pointer as ASCII. |
| nii | Accept a byte from stdin and store it at the data pointer. |
| Ni! | Increment the byte at the data pointer by 1. |
| ni! | Decrement the byte at the data pointer by 1. |
| Ni | Increment the data pointer by 1. |
| ni | Decrement the data pointer by 1. |
There is no support for comments.
The following program outputs A shrubbery! in Ni.
ni! ni! ni! ni! Niii ni! ni! ni! ni! Ni Ni! ni niii
Ni Ni! Ni! Nii ni! Niii ni! ni! Ni Ni! ni niii Ni
Nii ni! ni! ni! Niii ni! Ni Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! ni niii
Ni ni! Nii ni! ni! ni! ni! ni! ni! ni! ni! ni! ni! ni!
Nii Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Nii Ni!
Ni! Ni! Nii Ni! Niii ni! Ni Ni! Ni! Ni! ni niii Ni Nii
Nii Ni! Ni! Ni! Nii Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni!
Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Nii Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Nii ni!
Niii ni! ni! ni! ni! Ni Ni! ni niii Ni Ni! Ni! Ni! Nii
Input files MUST end in either .ni or .nii.
Set the environment variable of NI_DEBUG=true. It is false by default.
Set the environment variable of NI_STORAGE=1024 where the number is in bytes.
First ensure you have rust and cargo installed on your machine. You can follow the standard installation guide.
Then you can just run cargo build -r which will generate the release binary.
From there you can just run it with the .ni file of your choice.
./target/release/ni-runtime <file-path>.ni
Bundled executables may be released at a later date if there is enough interest.
A list of sample programs has been provided in the sample-programs directory. Please note that these were originally
bf programs that were translated to .ni files with the bf_to_nil.py file in the utils directory. Proper credit
goes to the original creators linked below.
sample-programs/conway.ni- Enter letters to initialize the board. For example cc will put row, column cc. Hit enter to go to next stage.
sample-programs/sierpinski.ni- Generates the magical sierpinksi triangle.
I have just received word that The Knights Who Say Ni are no longer The Knights Who Say Ni. They are now The Knights Who Say Ekky Ekky Ekky Ekky Pitang Zoom Boing Zou Zim. As such all language development outside of bug fixes will be halted.