Hey guys! Today, I’ll be outlining our entry for the Repl.it Language Jam!

What’s Quest?

Quest is an extremely object-oriented programming language for console (and soon to be web [see Roadmap section]) development written by @SpicedSpices and @bramley. It was made to simple, quick, and efficient.

Our website is https://questlang.repl.co

How Do I Code With Quest?

We have 2 methods currently. You can either:

• A. Fork the Quest source repl and edit the main.qst file. Quest's source repl is at https://repl.it/@QuestLang/Quest#main.qst
• B. Use the very outdated online IDE that doesn’t support input() or many other features. It can be found at https://ide.questlang.repl.co/ (if that doesn’t work then try https://quest-ide.spicedspices.repl.co/).

How Do I Write Quest Code?

Our documentation website is here (https://docs.questlang.repl.co/), but I’ve outlined some basic things here:

• Printing to the console

print(‘Hello World!’);

• Defining variables

var x = 0;
const y = ‘Hello World!’;

• Math

var x = 3;
var y = 1 + 1;

x + y; // x = x + y //

• Concatenation

var x = ‘World’;
print(‘Hello &x !’);

• Comments

// This won’t affect the program’s output //
// Comments are always define like this, even
multi-lined ones! //

• Accepting input from the console

input(‘What’s your age’, $userAge);

Note: userAge is a variable assigned to the user’s input from the console. All built-in functions with returns work like this.

• Defining/calling functions

func functionName {
    print(‘Hello World!’);
} // defines function //
functionName(); // calls function //

• For Loops

for(0 to 10 as i){
  print('&i  iterations complete!');
}
for(5 to 2){
  print('iterating again');
}

• While Loops

while(x > y){
  x - y;
}

• If Statements

if(x < y){
  print('x is less than y');
} else {
  print('y is less than x');
}

• Using Extended Features

Random(0, 100, $randNum);

Note: those 2 first numbers are called “parameters” in Quest, and can be called in your code. The $randNum is to set variable randNum to the random number

Also, our full standard library is in our docs: https://docs.questlang.repl.co

More Advanced Quest

• Using variable parameters

Random(0, 100, $randNum);
print(‘A random number has been generated as &randNum . The range to decide the value was &randNum.min  to &randNum.max‘);

Roadmap / What We’d Do With The Money
In the future, we plan to build webservers and a rendering engine into Quest (this was actually the thing that was originally going to set us apart, but we realized about a week ago that variable parameters would be easier to make in the time we had). We also plan on making the rendering engine usable with local apps. With the money, we want to buy a domain (questlang.org looks nice, don’t you think?), and sponsor programming YouTubers (JomaTech, Michael Reeves come to my mind) and other creators to use our language in order to reach a wider audience.

Links:

• Quest Source Repl: https://repl.it/@QuestLang/Quest
• Github Repository: https://github.com/QuestLang/Quest
• Showcase: https://questlang.repl.co
• Documentation: https://docs.questlang.repl.co
• Package Manager (incomplete): https://packages.questlang.repl.co

Thank you for checking this out, and we hope you enjoy!