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Phel is a functional programming language that transpiles to PHP.

It is a dialect of Lisp inspired by Clojure and Janet, designed for building robust applications in the PHP ecosystem.

Example

; Define a namespace
(ns my\example)

; Define a variable with name "my-name" and value "world"
(def my-name "world")

; Define a function with name "print-name" and one argument "your-name"
(defn print-name [your-name]
  (print "hello" your-name))

; Call the function
(print-name my-name)

Documentation

• Website
  • Features, documentation, exercises and blog
• Installation
  • Quick start with scaffolding or manual installation
• Packagist
  • The PHP Package Repository
• Internals
  • Additional documentation about the compiler internals

Community

Feel free to ask questions and join discussions on the Phel Gitter channel.

Build PHAR

Run the following command to create a standalone PHAR executable:

./build/phar.sh

The generated build/out/phel.phar can then be executed directly.

Contribute

Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md for information on how to contribute to Phel.