A programming language built to match my personal tastes.

Zenth takes the parts I like from Python and Go and mashes them up into something hopefully consistent and simple. I like Python's readability and ease of use, and Go's compilation to a binary and toolset. For example, Zenth uses curly braces and semicolons instead of whitespace to define structure, requires types to be used (using inference where it can), and simplifies object creation and usage.

Zenth language transpiles to Go and then compiled to a native binary using Go's toolchain, so it has the performance, garbage collection, and cross-compilation benefits of Go.

Note: This is a personal project. It's fun to hack on and pleasant to write small programs in, but probably shouldn't be used for anything too serious.

fn main() {
    let name = "World";
    Println("Hello, {name}!");

    let numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
    for i, n in numbers {
        Println("{i}: {n}");
    }
}

obj Circle {
    radius: Float;

    fn area() -> Float {
        return 3.14159 * self.radius * self.radius;
    }
}

fn fizzbuzz(n: Int) -> Str {
    return if n % 15 == 0 { "FizzBuzz" }
      else if n % 3 == 0  { "Fizz" }
      else if n % 5 == 0  { "Buzz" }
      else                 { Str(n) };
}

fn main() {
    let c = Circle(radius=5.0);
    Println("Area: {c.area()}");

    for i in Range(1, 21) {
        Println(fizzbuzz(i));
    }
}

You need Go 1.26+ and optionally just.

git clone https://github.com/mkaz/zenth.git
cd zenth
just build

Write a program:

fn main() {
    Println("Hello from Zenth!");
}

Run it:

zenth run hello.zn

Or compile to a binary:

zenth build hello.zn
./hello

Full documentation is available at mkaz.github.io/zenth — including tutorials, how-to guides, language reference, and design explanation.

Vim/Neovim syntax highlighting is included in extras/vim/. To install, copy or symlink it into your Vim config:

cp -r extras/vim/* ~/.vim/
# or for Neovim
cp -r extras/vim/* ~/.config/nvim/

Import the extras/cot/Zenth.yml from Settings -> Format.

A skill is available at extras/skill to provide guidance to your LLM on how to write Zenth programs. Copy the skill directory to your providers skills folder, renaming to zenth. For Claude Code:

cp -r extras/skill ~/.claude/skills/zenth

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