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Nomsu (named after Nomic, and its creator, Peter Suber) is a programming language designed to be used for playing games of Nomic, or engaging in other similar activities revolving around natural language rule-making and self modification.
The language compiler was written in Moonscript, using the LPEG library for parsing. LPEG is a dependency, so you need to install it in order to run the compiler. All of the moon files have been compiled into lua for convenience, so Moonscript is not a dependency.
In order to run a .nom file, run lua nomsu.lua your_file.nom. Code can also be compiled
into lua code directly, which still requires nomsu.lua as a dependency, but bypasses the
compilation phase when it runs. To compile, run lua nomsu.lua your_file.nom output_file.lua
which produces an output file which can be run with the command lua output_file.lua.
Example code can be found in the examples folder.
lib/core.nom contains some extremely helpful and basic core functionality for the language,
written in the language itself, so I recommend adding require "lib/core.nom" to the top of
your files.
There is a vim plugin for the language available in the Vim Nomsu repository.