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Wax is a programming language created in 2020 by Lingdong Huang.

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Download source code:
git clone https://github.com/LingDong-/wax
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A tiny programming language that transpiles to C, C++, Java, TypeScript, Python, C#, Swift, Lua and WebAssembly


Language features

Feature Supported Example Token
Operators ✓ ;; << >> = && || >= <= <> ;; + - * / ^ % & | ! ~ < >
Line Comments ✓ ; a comment ;
Macros ✓ (@define MY_CONSTANT 5) (@if MY_CONSTANT 5 (print "yes, it's") (print @MY_CONSTANT) )
Ternary operators ✓ (set y (? (= x 0) 1 2))
Prefix Notation ✓ (+ 1 1)
Structs ✓ (struct point (let x float) (let y float) )
Lists ✓ (let x (arr (vec 3 float)))
Maps ✓ (let m (map str int) (alloc (map str int))) (set m "xyz" 123) (insert m "abc" 456) ; exactly same as 'set' (print (get m "xyz")) (remove m "xyz") (print (get m "xyz")) ;^ if a value is not there, the "zero" value of the element type is returned ; for numbers, 0; for compound types, null.
Strings ✓
Floats ✓
Assignment ✓ (set x 42)
Integers ✓ (let x int 42)
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