Show HN: Alumina Programming Language

Alumina is a programming language I have been working on for a while. Alumina may be for you if you like the control that C gives you but miss goodies from higher level programming languages.

It is mostly for fun and exercise in language design, I don't have any grand aspirations for it. It is however, by this time, a usable general-purpose language.

Alumina borrows (zing) heavily from Rust, except for its raison d'être (memory safety). Syntax is a blatant rip-off of Rust, but so is the standard library scope and structure.

Alumina bootstrap compiler currently compiles to ugly C, but a self-hosted compiler is early stages that will target LLVM as backend.

If that sounds interesting, give it a try. I appreciate any feedback!

Standard library documentation: https://docs.alumina-lang.net/

Online compiler playground: https://play.alumina-lang.net/

107 points tibordp 4 years ago 87 comments

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