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Brian Chen, a security software engineer at Zoom, built a new programming language called Noulith. Built on Rust, Chen sought inspiration from Robert Nystrom’s “Crafting Interpreters”. Gustav Westling and Dmitry Cheryasov also are key contributors of Noulith.
This new programming language has been trending on the Internet for its key feature of giving correct results. As shown below, no matter what your syntax is, Noulith claims to give accurate results.
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Key features:
- Operator precedence is resolved at runtime.
- Everything here is an infix operator, so, nearly everything can be partially applied.
- Noulith doesn’t distinguish between sets and dictionaries. Here, the lists are brackets. Dictionaries are curly braces. It doesn’t care about a separate set type, but dictionaries often behave quite like their sets of keys.
- Operator precedence is customisable and resolved at runtime, so you will always get error-free results.
- It is dynamically typed with no whitespace or indentation-sensitive.
- Here, you can declare variables with ‘:=.’ and everything is an expression.
- No classes or members or whatever; it’s just global functions all the way down. Or up. At the highest level, statements are C/Java/Scala-style
- For loops, you can use left arrows and double-headed arrows for index-value or key-value pairs.
- Prefix operators might be tricky. So, when you are in doubt, parenthesise the operand.
For example,
The developer has mentioned that he will constantly update the code to make it better. So, we have to look out for what he has in store.
However, the developer community seems to not be impressed with this new programming language and calls it a basic “armchair thought”—more like an upgraded version of C++.
