Orion

Orion is a programming language for backend work and automation.

Clean syntax, optional typing, native OOP, 58 built-in modules and a full pipeline written in Rust.

Note on naming. Orion is written in English: keywords ( fn , return ,

that came first still work as deprecated aliases : db.insertar runs

today and will keep running for the rest of 0.1.x, but it is scheduled for

removal. Write db.insert in new code. See SPEC.md section 11.

No boilerplate - code reads like pseudocode. One task, five lines at most.

Modern - OOP, type hints, string interpolation, async/await, regex, and AI as a language keyword.

Fast - the whole pipeline is Rust: lexer → parser → type checker → codegen → VM. Loading and aggregating 500k CSV rows is 2× faster than Python at the same memory ( reproducible benchmark ).

Safe - parameterized queries, validation at the boundary, native crypto.

On Windows, rename the .exe to orion.exe and add it to your PATH .

The extension downloads the compiler the first time you open a .orx file,

taking it from the latest release and storing it in VS Code's global storage.

If orion is already on your PATH , it uses that one instead.

-- if / else if / else — the middle branch is two tokens, `else if`.

-- with no `=>` arrow, and the whole thing cannot be assigned to a variable.

serve is a language statement: it takes a port and a handler function.