Janet - Programming language

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Janet is a programming language created in 2018 by Calvin Rose.

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6Years Old

88Repos

Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/janet-lang/janet

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A dynamic language and bytecode vm

Tags: programming language
Janet is developed on GitHub and has 3,400 stars
There are at least 88 Janet repos on GitHub
Early development of Janet happened in https://github.com/janet-lang
Janet is written in C, YAML, Bourne shell, Markdown, Make, Meson, SVG, Assembly language
There are 0 members in the Janet subreddit
janet-lang.org was registered in 2018

Example from the web:

import joy)

(defn home [request]
  (joy/render :text "You found joy!"))

(def routes [[:get "/" home]])

(def app (joy/handler routes))

(joy/server app 8000)

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Functions	✓
Assignment	✓
Lists	✓
Conditionals	✓
Booleans	✓
Integers	✓
Floats	✓
Print() Debugging	✓
Comments	✓
MultiLine Comments	X

HackerNews discussions of Janet

title	date	score	comments
Janet is a Lisp for scripting, or embedding in other programs	02/15/2019	3	0