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2 points by ForLoveOfCats 2 years ago · 1 comment · 1 min read

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Hey HN

I'm Julia, and recently I've open sourced Fae, a programming language project I've been working on for a while.

Fae is an unsafe systems language designed to be pleasant to read, write, and reason about.

Small list of notable features include:

- Generic type system (trait system planned)

- Mutability in the type system

- Rich enums w/variant matching

- Expression blocks/if-else

- First class extension method support

- Newline-significant syntax

The compiler currently produces executables with LLVM, but I plan to build a custom codegen backend for debug builds in the future.

Errors can currently be handled with Option/Result types, but a more complete error system is planned. That said though, the details are not yet concrete.

breck 2 years ago

I like your design decisions and influence languages! I'm not the particular target market for this lang, but think it would be of interest to https://reddit.com/r/programminglanguages

My user test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXiRfpFufOQ

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