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Heron is a programming language created in 2016 by Christopher Diggins.

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Download source code:
git clone https://github.com/cdiggins/heron-language
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A pure functional type-inferred language based on JavaScript


Example from the web:
// Named function with statement body function sum(xs) { var result = 0; for (var x in xs) result += x; return result; }

Language features

Feature Supported Example Token
Comments // A comment
Line Comments // A comment //
Semantic Indentation X

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