diff --git a/packages/retina/1.2.0/build.sh b/packages/retina/1.2.0/build.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9712458
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/retina/1.2.0/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# get dotnet 2.2.8 as a dependency for retina
+curl "https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/022d9abf-35f0-4fd5-8d1c-86056df76e89/477f1ebb70f314054129a9f51e9ec8ec/dotnet-sdk-2.2.207-linux-x64.tar.gz" -Lo dotnet.tar.gz
+tar xzf dotnet.tar.gz --strip-components=1
+rm dotnet.tar.gz
+
+export DOTNET_CLI_HOME=$PWD
+./dotnet new console -o cache_application
+
+rm -rf cache_application
+
+# curl retina version 1.2.0
+curl -L "https://github.com/m-ender/retina/releases/download/v1.2.0/retina-linux-x64.tar.gz" -o retina.tar.xz
+tar xf retina.tar.xz --strip-components=1
+rm retina.tar.xz
+
+# move the libhostfxr.so file to the current directory so we don't have to set DOTNET_ROOT
+mv host/fxr/2.2.8/libhostfxr.so libhostfxr.so
+
+# give execute permissions to retina
+chmod +x Retina
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diff --git a/packages/retina/1.2.0/environment b/packages/retina/1.2.0/environment
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d9b5a4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/retina/1.2.0/environment
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+export PATH=$PWD/bin:$PATH
+export RETINA_PATH=$PWD
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diff --git a/packages/retina/1.2.0/metadata.json b/packages/retina/1.2.0/metadata.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f632d6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/retina/1.2.0/metadata.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+    "language": "retina",
+    "version": "1.2.0",
+    "aliases": ["ret"]
+}
diff --git a/packages/retina/1.2.0/run b/packages/retina/1.2.0/run
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bb64b05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/retina/1.2.0/run
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# retina doesn't take interactive stdin and doesn't take args either
+
+# save the file for later
+file="$1"
+
+# remove file from $@
+shift
+
+# join arguments on newline
+stdin=`printf "%s\n" "$@"`
+
+# pass stdin into Retina command with file as argument
+echo "$stdin" | "$RETINA_PATH"/Retina "$file"
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diff --git a/packages/retina/1.2.0/test.ret b/packages/retina/1.2.0/test.ret
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index 0000000..c4b21da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/retina/1.2.0/test.ret
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+K`OK
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diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index bc19ab4..d36c1a1 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -381,6 +381,7 @@ Content-Type: application/json
 `pyth`,
 `python`,
 `python2`,
+`retina`,
 `raku`,
 `rockstar`,
 `rscript`,