hoon - Programming language

hoon is a programming language created in 2011.

#2042on PLDB

15Years Old

84Repos

Hoon is a high-level, statically typed, functional programming language, custom-designed for use with Urbit. For a functional language it has a surprisingly imperative style, and mastering it doesn't require knowing any advanced mathematics.

Tags: programming language
There are at least 84 hoon repos on GitHub
Early development of hoon happened in https://github.com/cgyarvin/urbit/issues
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 3 users using hoon in 3 repos on GitHub
Read more about hoon on the web: 1.
1 PLDB concepts link to hoon: cloc

Example from the web:

::  A message you ping another ship with
::
::::  /===/mar/ping/message/hoon
  ::
/-  ping-message
!:
|_  ping-message
++  grab
  |%
  +=  noun
    ping-message
  --
--