Ether.ray - The Ray Programming Language & Ether

Note

This is still a work in progress. Relevant progress is documented in this repo and here

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What is this?

This thing is, in essence, a programming language (Ray) and an IDE (Ether), which together act as a theorem prover, version control system, database and rendering engine. Though to me, most importantly, it is here as infrastructure. Infrastructure for the design and implementation of a different category of (programming) interfaces.

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• If you prefer text, see Ether's Almanac: Your handbook for anything Ether, The Ray Programming Language & OrbitMines, or more generally my/OrbitMines writing can be found here.

• If you prefer video, see <TODO; Make a stream to explain the project better, or more generally my streams can be found here: youtube.com/@FadiShawki/streams.

• If you prefer code, see /@ether, or more generally my/OrbitMines code can be found here github.com/orbitmines.

• If you prefer discussions on Discord: discord.orbitmines.com.

Local setup

(untested on Mac/Windows)

curl -fsSL https://ether.orbitmines.com/install.sh | bash

On Windows (PowerShell or cmd):

powershell -c "irm https://ether.orbitmines.com/install.ps1 | iex"

Or with npm (Node.js 20.11 or later):

npm install -g @orbitmines/ether.ray

This installs ether (and ray, orbitmines) into ~/.ether/bin and adds it to your PATH; install.sh --uninstall (or install.ps1 -Uninstall) removes it again.

• You can also install language support for IntelliJ / VS Code (find it in their respective marketplaces under the name Ether.ray)

There are several alternative ways of installing Ray & Ether:

• Download the appropriate installer from GitHub Releases

• Open Ether in your browser @ ether.orbitmines.com

• Or compile from source

  git clone git@github.com:orbitmines/ray.git

  cd ray && ./install.sh --compile

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Running Ether.ray

ether

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The Ray Programming Language (Ether's Almanac)

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