Jakt - Programming language

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Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt

Jakt is a memory-safe systems programming language. It currently transpiles to C++.

Tags: programming language
Jakt is developed on GitHub and has 1,671 stars
Early development of Jakt happened in https://github.com/SerenityOS/
Jakt compiles to C++
Jakt is written in C++, JSON, Markdown, YAML, TypeScript, CMake, Python, Bourne shell, Vim script, JavaScript, XML, Nix, Lisp, Lua, Dockerfile

Example from the web:

function main() {
   let x = ("a", 2, true)

   println("{}", x.1)
}

function square(num: i32) -> i32 {
    return num * num
}

function main() {
    return square(num: 3)
}

Example from hello-world:

function main() {
    println("Hello World")
}

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Print() Debugging	✓		println