The Nu programming language

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22 points·albertzeyer··9 comments

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On GitHub: https://github.com/timburks/nu

The readme there gives also a better introduction to the goals and design decisions of the language.

Basic design:

* Lisp-like.

* Native calls are directly possible from within the language, so you can easily call C code.

* Uses the ObjC runtime.

Example of a Cocoa application: https://github.com/timburks/nu/blob/master/examples/RandomAp...

It looks like it will never graduate to be a stand-alone language. Even though, it looks like it could be less terrible than Objective C for some design patterns.

What do you mean by stand-alone?

The site appears to be down. More information here:

http://www.radtastical.com/stories/nu

Oops. It's back now. Sorry about that, I intend to upgrade that site but have been taking on some new things lately and haven't had much time. Also, I don't really follow Hacker News, but a friend pointed this post to me. Feel free to follow up with me any time on Twitter, email me at tim at radtastical dot com, or come see me at one of the meetups that I organize. http://meetup.com/sviphone

The site is down now, but when I checked this page a few weeks ago it hadn't been updated in 2 years.

Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bcZL8j8...

The last update was September 2, 2011 with the release of Nu 2.0.1.

On GitHub, the last commit was 14 days ago.

Oh that's not bad at all; my mistake.

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Great stuff.

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