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Nu is an open source programming language created in 2007 by Tim Burks.

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Nu is an interpreted object-oriented programming language, with a Lisp-like syntax, created by Tim Burks as an alternative scripting language to program OS X through its Cocoa application programming interface (API). Implementations also exist for iPhone and Linux. The language was first announced at C4, a conference for indie Mac developers held in August 2007.. Read more on Wikipedia...


Example from hello-world:
(puts "Hello World")
Example from Linguist:
#!/usr/bin/env nush (puts "Hello")
Example from Wikipedia:
(unless @prefix (set @prefix "#{((((NSProcessInfo processInfo) arguments) 0) dirName)}..")) (unless @icon_files (set @icon_files (array "#{@prefix}/share/nu/resources/nu.icns")))

Language features

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

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