About Lyric
Lyric is designed to make programming feel intuitive again — a balance of simplicity, structure, and flow.
Our Mission
To provide an alternative syntax to Python that retains its core power while introducing clearer structure, type safety, and a design that feels natural to write.
Why "Lyric"?
Lyric is a general-purpose programming language designed to support introductory computer science education, compiler design experimentation, and practical scripting tasks for system administrators. Lyric does not have any forced tabbed indentation requirements. It also takes advantage of Python's massive standard and community supported libraries.
Lyric adopts a hybrid C++/Python-style syntax intended to be approachable for developers familiar with either C-style languages or Python. Lyric programs are intentionally simple and readable and are suitable to be maintained by multiple developers with various backgrounds and skill levels.
The Team
MiraNova Studios
- Michael (Aeonath): Design, architecture, and AI orchestration
- ChatGPT: Contributes to language design and architecture
- Claude: Performs the primary implementation and unit test development
Core Capabilities
- Performance: Intended to provide performance reasonably close to equivalent native Python programs.
- Integration: Provides seamless access to Python’s full standard library and ecosystem through the importpy statement.
- Portability: Runs anywhere a Python interpreter is available — no special environment or runtime installation required.
- Type System: Lyric uses a strict static typing system with built-in type inference — meaning variables declared with var automatically take on a fixed type based on their initial value, without requiring explicit type annotations.
Developer Information
Blog: MiraNova has regular updates and insights about Lyric's on-going development
VSCode: The official Lyric extension for Visual Studio Code is available on the VS Marketplace.
Vim: A syntax file for Vim is available here.
GitHub: GitHub source repo.
License
Lyric is released under the GPL v3.
Contact
- Website: miranova.studio