# Install latino with Homebrew

Open source programming language for Latinos and Hispanic speakers. Version 1.4.4 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:latino
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install latino
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:latino
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.4.4
- **Source summary:** Open source programming language for Latinos and Hispanic speakers
- **Homepage:** <https://www.lenguajelatino.org/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/lenguaje-latino/latino>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- latino (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.4.4
## Project history and usage

Latino is an open-source programming language and interpreter with Spanish syntax. It is written in C, influenced by Python and Lua, and aimed at Spanish-speaking learners and developers who want programming constructs expressed closer to their natural language.

### Project history

The official manual describes Latino as starting in 2015 and frames it as a fully functional language with Spanish syntax. The GitHub README says the project was created from the need to increase basic and advanced computer-science education so children, teenagers, and adults could be motivated to build applications in syntax closer to their own language.

The repository's tagged history includes v1.0 work dated 2017-05-22 and v1.4.4 work dated 2024-11-09. The project organization also separates related pieces such as latino-Core, reflecting an ecosystem around the language rather than a single throwaway interpreter.

### Adoption history

Latino's adoption story is educational and community-oriented. Its manual says Hispanic users around the world have supported, popularized, and contributed to the source code, while Homebrew packaging made the interpreter available to macOS and Linux users through a mainstream developer package manager.

### How it is used

The manual positions Latino for web development on the server side, database connectivity, mathematics, and system scripting. In package-manager terms, the brew formula primarily installs the latino executable for running programs written in the language.

### Why package nerds care

Latino is notable in package catalogs as a non-English-based programming language with an explicitly educational mission. It is a reminder that language runtimes are not only about performance or industrial adoption; sometimes the packaging value is making a culturally specific learning tool installable with the same command used for mainstream compilers and interpreters.

### Timeline

- 2015: Official manual says Latino started as a Spanish-syntax programming language.
- 2017: v1.0 tagged commit dated 2017-05-22.
- 2024: v1.4.4 tagged commit dated 2024-11-09.

### Related projects

- Related projects and influences include Python, Lua, the lenguaje-latino GitHub organization, and latino-Core.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/latino>
- <https://github.com/lenguaje-latino>
- <https://github.com/lenguaje-latino/latino>
- <https://manual.lenguajelatino.org/en/latest/About-Latino.html>
- <https://manual.lenguajelatino.org/en/stable>
- <https://manual.lenguajelatino.org/es/stable>


## Security Notes

generalized runtime or code generation signal.

- **Geiger risk:** yellow / medium
- generalized runtime or code generation signal


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/latino.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/latino.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph