adm programming language

ADM

One language for apps, services and interfaces.
Statically typed, compiled to native binaries.

Website · Language · Standard library · Examples · Libraries · Download

ADM is a programming language where the things a program usually glues together are part of the language: contracts and transactions, services and their permissions, UI components, units of measure, GPU code, and calls into other language ecosystems.

application Hello {
	def greet(name string) !string {
		fail "nobody to greet" when name == ""
		return "hello, {name}"
	}

	def new(args string[]) int {
		let line = greet("world") onerror (err error) {
			println(err.message)
			return 1
		}
		println(line)
		return 0
	}
}

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/admlang/adm/main/install.sh | sh

It installs into ~/.adm for the current user, with the compiler, the standard library and a bundled C toolchain; adm update fetches new releases. Linux (amd64) is the platform released today; macOS and Windows packages are coming.

adm run            # build and run the application in this folder
adm test           # run its check suites
adm get admlang:adm.network.redis

What is here

Repository	What it holds
adm	The compiler, the standard library, the language specification, and the releases
registry	The public index of ADM libraries that `adm search` and `adm get` read
database	Official database libraries: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, an ORM, and an embedded store
network	Official clients for infrastructure services: Redis, RabbitMQ (AMQP), Kafka, memcached, etcd, S3
cloud	Official cloud provider libraries: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Cloudflare
ai	Official clients for hosted model APIs: OpenAI and compatible servers, Anthropic, Gemini, Ollama
auth	Official sign-in libraries: Google, GitHub, Microsoft, Apple
dev	Official developer platform libraries: Git, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub, GitLab
notify	Official notification libraries: Slack, Discord, Telegram, Twilio, SendGrid, Postmark
payment	Official payment libraries: Stripe, PayPal
telemetry	Official telemetry exporters: Datadog, Sentry
interop	Other languages inside an ADM program: JavaScript, Python, Lua, Java, .NET, WebAssembly
plugins	Editor support: the IntelliJ and VS Code plugins
examples	Programs to read and run
adm-lang.dev	The sources of the website

Official libraries

adm search                                # everything in the registry
adm get admlang:adm.database.postgres     # add one to your project

Library	For
`adm.database.postgres`, `adm.database.mysql`, `adm.database.sqlite`	SQL databases through `std.data.db`
`adm.database.store`	An embedded single-file database
`adm.database.mongodb`, `adm.database.elasticsearch`	MongoDB; Elasticsearch and OpenSearch
`adm.database.orm`	Typed repositories, queries and migrations over the SQL drivers
`adm.network.redis`	Redis and Valkey
`adm.network.amqp`, `adm.network.kafka`	RabbitMQ and AMQP 0-9-1 brokers; Kafka and compatible services
`adm.network.memcached`, `adm.network.etcd`	memcached; etcd
`adm.network.s3`	Amazon S3 and compatible stores
`adm.cloud.aws`, `adm.cloud.gcp`, `adm.cloud.azure`, `adm.cloud.cloudflare`	One library per cloud provider
`adm.ai.openai`, `adm.ai.anthropic`, `adm.ai.gemini`, `adm.ai.ollama`	Hosted model APIs, behind `std.ai.llm`
`adm.auth.google`, `adm.auth.github`, `adm.auth.microsoft`, `adm.auth.apple`	Signing users in with an identity provider
`adm.dev.git`, `adm.dev.docker`, `adm.dev.kubernetes`	Git repositories, container engines, Kubernetes clusters
`adm.dev.github`, `adm.dev.gitlab`	The GitHub and GitLab APIs and webhooks
`adm.notify.slack`, `adm.notify.discord`, `adm.notify.telegram`	Chat platforms
`adm.notify.twilio`, `adm.notify.sendgrid`, `adm.notify.postmark`	SMS, voice and transactional mail
`adm.payment.stripe`, `adm.payment.paypal`	Payments, subscriptions and webhooks
`adm.telemetry.datadog`, `adm.telemetry.sentry`	Exporters for the `Telemetry` service
`adm.interop.js`, `adm.interop.python`, `adm.interop.lua`	Script engines compiled into your program
`adm.interop.java`, `adm.interop.dotnet`, `adm.interop.wasm`	The Java VM, the .NET runtime, WebAssembly modules

Libraries are signed by their publisher. adm get verifies the signature and asks before it grants the permissions a library's code reaches; adm get --dry-run reports them and installs nothing.

Status

Bug reports and questions are welcome in the issues of the main repository.

Licensed under Apache 2.0.