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Programming Language Design

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Discord GitHub [Name Redacted]

It is designed to be easy, yet powerful, compiling to LLVM and self-hosting. Our goal is for it to be faster than C and easier than Python.

AEC

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A low-level programming language with syntax inspired by BASIC and Ada. Right now, it can target x86 and WebAssembly.

Alox

GitHub [Name Redacted]

GPU-Accelerated, Distributed, Actor Model Language

Amp

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A minimalistic systems language for modern software

Amun

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A low-level programming language with a simple and productive design inspired by C/C++, Rust, Go, Jai.

Ante

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A compiled systems language focusing on providing extensibility through the use of a compile-time API.

Argon

GitHub [Name Redacted]

Argon is an interpreted multi-paradigm programming language. Its syntax is influenced by many modern languages and aims to be elegant, clean and simple to use.

Calypso

Discord GitHub [Name Redacted]

Calypso is a mostly imperative language with some functional influences that is focused on flexibility and simplicity.

Cella

Discord GitHub [Name Redacted]

A strongly-typed minimalistic systems programming language with semantic side-effects and minimal runtime overhead

C3

Discord GitHub [Name Redacted]

An evolution of C, adding modules, error handling and semantic macros.

Chaos

Gitter Libera.Chat GitHub [Name Redacted]

Strongly typed, dynamic yet compilable, test-oriented procedural programming language that achieves zero cyclomatic complexity.

CASC

Discord GitHub [Name Redacted]

A JVM language focus on concise syntaxes and enhancing language features from Java.

Chika

GitHub [Name Redacted]

S-expression programming language, with VM targeting both PC and Arduino.

Closey

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A functional language that aims to be as simple as possible but as efficient and user friendly as possible.

Cognate

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A highly readable quasi-concatenative dynamic language.

Cone

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A fast, fit, friendly, and safe systems programming language to power the 3D web.

Core

GitHub [Name Redacted]

a modern, minimal programming language

Dyvil

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A multi-paradigm, general purpose language for the JVM, with an extensible syntax.

Egel

GitHub [Name Redacted]

An interpreter for eager untyped combinator rewriting implemented in C++.

Fennel

Libera.Chat GitHub [Name Redacted]

A lisp which compiles to Lua with zero overhead, revived by technomancy.

Firefly

Discord GitHub [Name Redacted]

Full-stack language with colorless async/await and object capabilities.

ForthScript

GitHub [Name Redacted]

Simple yet powerful concatenative stack-based scripting lang with code-as-data paradigm. Aims to run on bare metal like FORTH!

FuncSug

GitHub [Name Redacted]

An alternative to event-driven programming that resolves the callback hell and the state management problem thanks to very structured concurrency and await-event instructions.

Futhark

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A high-performance parallel functional array language targeting GPUs.

Gera

Discord [Name Redacted]

A high-level, procedural, compiled and garbage collected programming language without type annotations.

Gwion

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A strongly-timed musical programming language

Hascal

GitHub [Name Redacted]

Hascal is a general purpose and open source programming language designed to build optimal, maintainable, reliable and efficient software.

H-hat

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A quantum programming language aimed to build quantum algorithms through a higher abstraction layer.

Hook

Discord GitHub [Name Redacted]

An imperative, cross-platform, dynamically typed scripting language that utilizes a mutable value semantics approach.

Horse64

Git [Name Redacted]

Dynamically typed but orderly, reducing chaos in large projects. A grounded Python-alike.

ilo Token

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A rule-based dictionary-based Toki Pona to English translator that translates into multiple English outputs showing many possible grammatical and semantic interpretation of the text. No machine learning involved.

Imp

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A statically typed and compiled scripting language with the goal of increasing programmer confidence.

Inko

GitLab [Name Redacted]

A gradually typed, interpreted, object-oriented language drawing inspiration from many others.

Insitux

Discord GitHub [Name Redacted]

Extensible s-expression scripting language written in portable TypeScript.

jank

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A Clojure dialect hosted on LLVM with native C++ interop.

Jazz

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A systems programming language with a JIT and AOT compiler that uses GCCJIT as backend.

Jinx

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A clean, embeddable scripting language designed with an asynchronous and thread-safe execution model.

Kitten

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A statically typed concatenative language with effect types.

Peridot

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A fast functional language based on two level type theory

Lesma

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A fast compiled, statically typed, pythonesque programming language.

Lobster

GitHub [Name Redacted]

Flow-senstitive type inference, specialization, compile-time reference counting, and Python-y syntax.

MANOOL

GitHub [Name Redacted]

Programming language that combines high abstraction power with great control over asymptotic complexity and performance of your programs

Mercury

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A logic/functional programming language with advanced static analysis and error detection features.

Mlatu

GitHub [Name Redacted]

Statically-typed, purely-functional, concatenative

Monte

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A dynamic programming language inspired by Python and E.

Mu

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A purely statement-oriented language (like Basic) designed for teaching programming 1-on-1.

Mushroom

GitLab [Name Redacted]

An experimental functional programming language with an emphasis on type inference and aesthetic syntax.

Myrddin

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A systems language aiming to fit in a similar niche to C, but with fewer bullets in your feet.

Never

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A simple syntactically-scoped, strongly-typed, call-by-value, functional language.

NGS

GitHub [Name Redacted]

Next Generation Shell, an alternative to many scripting languages, with syntax for idempotent resource manipulation.

Nib

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A semi-concatenative that extends array language features such as tacit programming and scalar extension.

Okta

GitHub [Name Redacted]

Compiled, imperative and general-purpose programming language that aims to provide a simple platform to create efficient software.

Oopsilon

GitHub [Name Redacted]

Dynamic object language modelled after Smalltalk, with a gradual typing system affording expressiveness rivalling ML or Haskell.

Owen

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A language close to C with modern touches.

oXyl

GitLab [Name Redacted]

A functional language designed to work on parallel CPU and GPGPU using a functional paradigm and context system to contain side effects.

Plasma

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A language that balances functional and imperative programming, and has state-of-the-art concurrency and parallelism features.

Pikelet

Gitter GitHub [Name Redacted]

A friendly little systems language with first-class types and unboxed data.

PISC

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An attempt to make concatenative programming less mind-bendy via locals, closures, and syntactic sugar.

Pointless

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A scripting language for learning and fun. Designed for teaching and exploring functional programming.

Popr

GitHub [Name Redacted]

Concatenative programming for types as well as values, striving for purity, correctness, and efficient execution.

Psyche-c

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A compiler for incomplete C code.

Pyash

GitLab [Name Redacted]

A language based on linguistic universals for totally taking over the world.

Rebuild

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A project to experiment with and build the ultimate systems programming language.

Rhovas

GitHub [Name Redacted]

An experimental programming language for API design.

RicScript

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A dynamically typed interpreted scripting language.

Riff

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A dynamically typed programming language designed primarily for prototyping and command-line usage.

Ry

Discord GitHub [Name Redacted]

An open source programming language for web development with expressive type system similar to Rust.

Saltwater

Discord GitHub [Name Redacted]

A C compiler written in Rust.

Sixten

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A dependently typed language where all data is unboxed by default. Functional programming with fewer indirections!

Snowball

Discord GitHub [Name Redacted]

🐱 Snowball is a low-weight, statically typed, object oriented programming language with garbage collector and module system.

Sophie

GitHub [Name Redacted]

Call-by-need statically-duck-typed pure-functional actor language named for French mathematician Sophie Germain.

Sphere

GitHub [Name Redacted]

Cross-architecture, freestanding and light-weight OOP Language made for OS and general software development with Direct Memory Manipulation

Star

GitHub [Name Redacted]

An experimental programming language that's made to be powerful, productive, and predictable.

Swallow

GitHub [Name Redacted]

An easy to use systems programming language with python-like syntax

Theta

Discord GitHub [Name Redacted]

A statically typed, functional programming language that compiles to WebAssembly.

TopShell

GitHub [Name Redacted]

Purely functional scripting language with structural types, type inference, reactive streams and visualization.

Truck

GitHub [Name Redacted]

Truck is a dynamic programming language with a focus on simplicity.

Valkyrie

Discord GitHub [Name Redacted]

Valkyrie is a multi-stage gradual typed language with first class continuation and effect system.

Vox

Discord GitHub [Name Redacted]

Statically typed compiled language inspired by D. Both JIT and AOT compilation. Can be used for scripting in D programs.

WLambda

GitHub [Name Redacted]

An embeddable dynamic scripting language for Rust. Every value can be called and the syntax is a blend of Perl, Lua, JavaScript and LISP.

Wu

Discord GitHub [Name Redacted]

An expression oriented, gradually typed, sweet, and mission-critical programming language.

Ü

GitHub [Name Redacted]

A statically-typed C++/Rust-like compiled language. Main goals are safety and speed.

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