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TheJostleron Vox, a systems language whose code reads like English

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TheJostleron Vox, a systems language whose code reads like English

Honestly interesting take. The language doesn't allow much expressiveness, so it is not hard to learn to write. The strength is understandability. In a world where more code is written by AI, auditability feels increasingly important. At the end of the day it's just an experiment; let's see where it goes.

TheJostleron Vox, a systems language whose code reads like English

I spent the last seven months building Vox. It compiles a constrained, sentence-based form of English directly to x86_64 NASM assembly. No runtime, no libc, no GC. The compiler is written in Rust.

Example:

  create the log file at "/tmp/init.log".
  open the log file for writing.
  write "init started" to the log file.

That compiles to a static, bounds-checked ELF binary. I also used it to start building a minimal Linux distro in pure Vox: initramfs, shell, and coreutils (https://github.com/TheJostler/voxos).

Pre-1.0 and moving fast. GPL-3.0-or-later.

Site: https://vox-lang.dev Repo: https://github.com/Vox-lang/vox