Hello World in Moonscript

Welcome to the Hello World in Moonscript page! Here, you'll find the source code for this program as well as a description of how the program works.

Current Solution

print "Hello, World!"

Hello World in Moonscript was written by:

• bassemmohamed1994

This article was written by:

• Jeremy Grifski
• rzuckerm

If you see anything you'd like to change or update, please consider contributing.

How to Implement the Solution

Hello World in MoonScript has a relatively simple implementation.

All we have to do is call the built-in Moonscript function print, and that's it. Behind the scenes, the code is compiled into Lua which is, in this case, exactly the same.

In other cases, it could be different. For instance, we could have an implementation of some arithmetic which we print to the user:

x = 10
y = 15
z = x + y
print y

The code is then compiled into Lua like this:

local x = 10
local y = 15
local z = x + y
return print(y)

How cool is that?

How to Run the Solution

If your feeling adventurous today, You can quickly install MoonScript using one of the following methods:

For Windows users, you can try installing the windows binaries.

For Linux users, install LuaRocks which is a package manager for Lua modules. Then run the following command:

luarocks install moonscript

With the moon executable and Lua modules on your device, run your .moon file with this command:

moon ./YOURFILE.moon

Also, you can compile your .moon file into Lua by using this command:

moonc ./YOURFILE.moon

Alternatively, you can always run MoonScript using an online compiler.