Earl Grey - Programming language

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Earl Grey is a programming language created in 2014 by Olivier Breuleux.

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10Years Old

Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/breuleux/earl-grey

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Programming language compiling to JavaScript

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Earl Grey is developed on GitHub and has 467 stars
Early development of Earl Grey happened in https://github.com/breuleux/earl-grey/issues
Earl Grey compiles to JavaScript
Earl Grey is written in JavaScript, Markdown, JSON
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Earl Grey

Example from the web:

count-words(text) =
   counts = new Map()
   words = text.split(R"\W+")
   words each word ->
      current-count = counts.get(word) or 0
      counts.set(word, current-count + 1)
   consume(counts.entries()).sort(compare) where
      compare({w1, c1}, {w2, c2}) = c2 - c1

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Binary Literals	✓
Integers	✓
Floats	✓
Hexadecimals	✓
Octals	✓

HackerNews discussions of Earl Grey

title	date	score	comments
Show HN: The Earl Grey language – pattern matching, macros, compiles to JS	08/07/2014	5	1