Bhailang — A Fun Programming Language

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Code Rider

4 min readMar 23, 2022

Bhailang is a dynamically typed toy programming language, based on an inside joke, written in Typescript, created by two Indian bros — Aniket Singh and Rishabh Tripathi. It is inspired by “Bro-Talk” which is commonly used by the Hindi-speaking male peoples from India.

This programming language is making the tech side of life a lot more fun and it’s a little something to bring a smile to the coder’s face.

It is a different language from others programming languages because It uses casual Hindi language as syntax which is known as Bhailang. There are a few keywords that make the Bhailang more interesting — “hi bhai…bye bhai”, “bhai ye hai”, “bol bhai”, “jab tak bhai”, “bas kar bhai”, “agar bhai”, “warna bhai”, etc.

‘Bhai’, the Hindi word for brother, is the heart of this programming language.

Let’s enjoy Bhai Ki Language — The Bhailang

Installation

The journey with Bhailang is really simple — Just create a directory for your project, and then run the npm command —

npm i -D bhailang

Create a file and run the code

Now, we can create a file with .bhai extension — helloBhai.bhai . Copy and paste the below code.

hi bhai
    bol bhai “Hello Bhai!”;
bye bhai

Now run the code and you can see the console output as Hello Bhai!.

npx bhailang helloBhai.bhai

Bhailang block

hi bhai is the entry point and bye bhai is the end point. This is called Bhailang block, anything outside of this block will be ignored.

semicolon ; is must after each syntax otherwise you can hear Ashneer Grover’s voice.

// Ignoredhi bhai
    ...
 // comment 
bye bhai// Ignored

Declaring Variable

bhai ye hai is keyword to declare any type of variables.

hi bhai
    bhai ye hai a = 10;
    bhai ye hai b = 13;
bye bhai

Data Types

numbers and string are similar to other language. NULL values are defined by nulla keyword. sahi and galat are the Boolean values.

hi bhai
    bhai ye hai a = 10;
    bhai ye hai b = "Bhai";
    bhai ye hai c = nulla;
    bhai ye hai d = sahi;
    bhai ye hai d = galat;
bye bhai

Console output

bol bhai is used to print output on console.

hi bhai
    bhai ye hai a = 10;
    bhai ye hai b = 13;
    bol bhai a + b;
bye bhai

Conditionals

Bhailang supports conditional programming. agar bhai block is executed if condition is sahi otherwise warna bhai block will be executed.

hi bhai
    bhai ye hai a = 10;
    agar bhai (a%2 == 0){
        bol bhai “Are ye to Even hai.”;
    } warna bhai {
        bol bhai “Ye to Odd hai.”;
    }
bye bhai

Loops

jab tak hai block will be executed until the specific condition is sahi . If the condition becomes galat statement within the block stops executing.

Use bas kar bhai to break the loop.
Use agla dekh bhai to continue within the loop.

hi bhai
    bhai ye hai a = 0;
    jab tak bhai (a < 10){
        a += 1;
        agar bhai(a == 4){
            bol bhai “ye hai “, a;
        }    
        agar bhai(a == 6){
            bol bhai “Agla dekh”;
            agla dekh bhai;
        }
        agar bhai(a == 8){
            bol bhai “Ruk ja”;
            bas kar bhai;
        }
    }
    bol bhai “Bas bhai, mai to thak gya”, a;
bye bhai

Common Errors

The more fun part comes while displaying errors in the console. Whenever you get any compilation error or runtime error it will show the error in Ashneer Grover’s famous voice — Kya kar rha hai tu??... There are some common errors and exceptions below —