Installation

No release yet

There are no Lucid binaries to download, and the source repository is private. Nothing on this page can be installed by the public yet. Downloads will list releases when they exist.

Platforms

Platform	State
Windows x86-64	Works in development: run, test, check, build, and build --target web
Linux x86-64	In progress, as part of M8
Browser and Node	An output target: lucid build --target web
macOS	Deferred, with no milestone

Planned installers

These commands are reserved for the first release. Today each script prints that no release exists and stops with an error, without downloading anything.

# Windows, PowerShell
irm https://lucidlang.dev/install.ps1 | iex

# Linux
curl -fsSL https://lucidlang.dev/install.sh | sh

When a release exists, the installers will read the published release list, download over HTTPS, check each archive’s SHA-256, and install into a user directory with no administrator rights.

Building from source

For those with access to the repository. The compiler is a Rust workspace, and it builds with cargo:

rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown
cargo build --release

This writes target/release/lucid. The build needs:

• A current stable Rust (the 2024 edition; development uses 1.97), with the wasm32-unknown-unknown target, which the WebAssembly runtime needs.
• On Windows, Visual Studio Build Tools and the Windows SDK, since lucid build links with the MSVC linker. LLVM, clang, and gcc are not needed.
• Node, only to run the compiler’s own test suite with cargo test.

Editor support

There is no editor extension yet. lucid lsp, a language server, is planned for M8.