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CLIPS Rule Based Programming Language
Expert System Tool
CLIPS is a forward-chaining rule-based programming language written in C that also provides procedural and object-oriented programming facilities. -
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MicroPython
Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems
MicroPython is a lean and efficient implementation of the Python 3 programming language that includes a small subset of the Python standard library and is optimised to run on microcontrollers and in constrained environments. The MicroPython pyboard is a compact electronic circuit board that runs MicroPython on the bare metal, giving you a low-level Python operating system that can be used to control all kinds of electronic projects. MicroPython is packed full of advanced features such as an interactive prompt, arbitrary precision integers, closures, list comprehension, generators, exception handling and more. Yet it is compact enough to fit and run within just 256k of code space and 16k of RAM. MicroPython aims to be as compatible with normal Python as possible to allow you to transfer code with ease from the desktop to a microcontroller or embedded system. -
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Crafting Interpreters
Repository for the book "Crafting Interpreters"
This repository is the companion to the book Crafting Interpreters. It contains the full source code for two interpreters (one in C and one in Java), the Markdown source of the book, the tooling to weave prose and code into a website, and build scripts to generate the executable interpreters. The book aims to teach from the ground up how to build a full-featured scripting language (called Lox) with parsing, AST, compiler / VM, garbage collection, classes, and more. Static site generator tooling to compose book + code into HTML. Markdown source of book chapters and text prose. Full interpreter implementation in C (clox). -
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MetaCall Core
The ultimate polyglot programming experience
A polyglot runtime that enables seamless execution of multiple programming languages within the same environment, improving interoperability between different codebases. -
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The Acton programming language
The Acton Programming Language
Write programs that seamlessly run as a distributed system over an entire data center or region. All without a single line of RPC code. Acton automatically persists the state of your application (orthogonal persistence) to a built-in distributed backend. No need to use a database or message broker ever again. 0 lines of persistence code. Built-in redundancy; Acton's transactional, high-performance distributed RTS can seamlessly resume application state after hardware failures. Never stop for an upgrade; Live upgrade your running application through compiler-supported code and data migration. Acton programs, and the actor model, work well from simple script-style applications on a single machine up to large distributed systems across a Data Center. Run at your scale. -
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ZIG
General-purpose programming language and toolchain
A general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software. -
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SmallBASIC
SmallBASIC is a fast and easy to learn BASIC language interpreter
SmallBASIC is a lightweight and powerful BASIC interpreter designed for simplicity and speed, suitable for hobbyists, educators, and retro computing enthusiasts. It offers a traditional text-based programming experience reminiscent of early microcomputers, while including modern features such as structured programming, graphics, and file I/O. SmallBASIC runs on multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, Android, and DOS, making it accessible across a wide range of systems. -
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php-src
The PHP Interpreter
This is the official source repository of PHP, a popular open-source server-side scripting language primarily used for web development. PHP powers a significant portion of the web, including platforms like WordPress, Drupal, and Laravel. The repository includes the core language engine, standard libraries, and tools for compilation and deployment across systems. -
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Agena
Agena is an interpreted procedural programming language.
Agena is an easy-to-learn procedural programming language designed for science, scripting, and many other applications. Binaries are available for Windows, Linux, Solaris, OS/2, Mac OS X, Raspberry Pi and DOS. -
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RaptorJIT
A dynamic language for system programming (LuaJIT fork)
RaptorJIT is a Lua implementation suitable for high-performance low-level system programming. If you want to use a simple dynamic language to write a network stack; a hypervisor; a unikernel; a database; etc, then you have come to the right place. -
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Zen C
Write like a high-level language, run like C
Zen C is a minimal yet expressive implementation of the C programming language that aims to balance simplicity with practical capability, making it ideal for educational use, language experimentation, and small-scale systems programming. It provides a clean syntax and semantics that closely mirror classic C while enforcing stricter rules to eliminate common pitfalls like undefined behaviors or hidden conversions that often cause bugs. Zen-C includes a lightweight compiler front-end and runtime that can target multiple platforms, enabling users to compile and run code on both desktop and embedded environments without heavy tooling. Because it prioritizes clarity and predictability, the language makes it easier for learners to understand core systems concepts while still accessing low-level memory control and performance. -
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zerolang
The programming language for agents
zerolang, also called Zero, is an experimental agent-first programming language from Vercel Labs. It explores what programming might look like when AI agents are treated as primary users from the start. The language aims to be small, regular, and easy for agents to learn from examples, diagnostics, and documentation. Its tooling is designed to expose structured facts for checking, running, formatting, debugging, repair, graph inspection, and size reporting. The project is pre-1 and intentionally unstable, so it is intended for isolated experimentation rather than production systems. zerolang is most useful as a research platform for developers interested in AI-native programming languages, agent-readable tooling, and repair-oriented development workflows. -
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Seed7
Interpreter and compiler for the Seed7 programming language.
Interpreter, compiler, libraries, documentation and examples for the Seed7 programming language. Seed7 is a general purpose programming language. It is a higher level language compared to Ada, C/C++ and Java. In Seed7 new statements and operators can be declared easily. Functions with type results and type parameters are more elegant than a template or generics concept. Object orientation is used where it brings advantages and not in places where other solutions are more obvious. Seed7 spares no effort to support portable programming. Several driver libraries assure that the access to operating system resources such as files, directories, network, clock, keyboard, console and graphics are done in a portable way. Although Seed7 contains several concepts from other programming languages, it is generally not considered a direct descendant of any other programming language. -
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X11-Basic
A BASIC interpreter and compiler with graphics.
X11-Basic is a dialect of the BASIC programming language with graphics capability that integrates features like shell scripting, cgi-Programming and full graphical visualisation into the easy to learn basic language on modern computers. -
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Vercel Zero
The programming language for agents
Zero is an experimental programming language from Vercel Labs designed with AI agents as first-class users. The project explores what a language, tooling system, and standard library might look like if agents need to read, debug, repair, and ship code reliably. It focuses on a small and regular language surface, structured diagnostics, predictable tooling, and machine-readable outputs. Zero is still pre-1 and intentionally unstable, so its syntax and APIs are meant for exploration rather than production use. The project includes commands for checking, running, building, graph inspection, size reporting, diagnostics, and repair-oriented workflows. Its main goal is to create a systems-oriented language environment that agents can understand and act on without relying only on human-readable compiler messages. -
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Ravi Programming Language
Ravi is a dialect of Lua, featuring limited optional static typing
Ravi Programming Language is a derivative of Lua 5.3 with limited optional static typing and MIR-based JIT compiler. Ravi is a derivative/dialect of Lua with limited optional static typing and JIT/AOT compilers. The name Ravi comes from the Sanskrit word for the Sun. Lua is perfect as a small embeddable dynamic language so why a derivative? Ravi extends Lua with static typing for greater performance under JIT compilation. However, static typing is optional and therefore Lua 5.3 programs are also valid Ravi programs. There are other attempts to add static typing to Lua (e.g. Typed Lua but these efforts are mostly about adding static type checks in the language while leaving the VM unmodified. So the static typing is to aid programming in the large - the code is eventually translated to standard Lua and executed in the unmodified Lua VM. -
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Inform
The core software distribution for the Inform 7 programming language
Inform is the core distribution of a powerful programming language and design system created for writing interactive fiction, where authors describe stories as text adventure games that players explore through typed commands. The language is distinctive for its natural-language-inspired syntax that reads almost like English, allowing storytellers to define rooms, objects, characters, and narrative logic in an intuitive way that emphasizes expressive clarity and literary structure. When you write in Inform, the source code is compiled into playable story files that run on interactive fiction virtual machines such as Z-machine or Glulx, enabling classic text-based gameplay with modern tooling. Inform handles the underlying complexities of text parsing, world modeling, state management, and player input, so authors can focus on narrative design rather than low-level engine details. -
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Wren
Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language
Think Smalltalk in a Lua-sized package with a dash of Erlang and wrapped up in a familiar, modern syntax. The VM implementation is under 4,000 semicolons. You can skim the whole thing in an afternoon. It's small, but not dense. It is readable and lovingly commented. A fast single-pass compiler to tight bytecode and a compact object representation help Wren compete with other dynamic languages. There are lots of scripting languages out there, but many have unusual or non-existent object models. Wren places classes front and center. Lightweight fibers are core to the execution model and let you organize your program into an army of communicating coroutines. Wren is intended for embedding in applications. It has no dependencies, a small standard library, and an easy-to-use C API. It compiles cleanly as C99, C++98 or anything later. -
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This project will allow a group of people to develop the Euphoria programming language: interpreter, translator, binder, documentation etc. For more information visit https://openeuphoria.org
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yorick
scientific programming language and graphics
Yorick is an interpreted programming language for scientific simulations or calculations, postprocessing or steering large simulation codes, interactive scientific graphics, and reading, writing, or translating large files of numbers. -
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Neptune
A calculator like programming language
Neptune is a simple programming language indented for quick mathematical calculations, e. g. shape field calculation or budget analysing. -
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Chapel
a Productive Parallel Programming Language
Chapel is an emerging parallel programming language whose design and development are being led by HPE in collaboration with academia, computing labs, and industry. Chapel's goal is to improve the productivity of parallel programmers, from laptops to supercomputers. **Please note that Chapel development has moved to GitHub** -
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Ring
Simple and flexible programming language for applications development
The Ring is a practical general-purpose multi-paradigm language. The supported programming paradigms are imperative, procedural, object-oriented, declarative using nested structures, functional, meta programming and natural programming. The language is portable (MS-DOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, WebAssembly, Microcontrollers, etc.) and can be used to create Console, GUI, Web, Games and Mobile applications. The language is designed to be simple, small and flexible. Ring is distributed as a Free-Open Source project under the MIT License. -
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SNOBOL4, while known primarily as a string language excels at any task involving symbolic manipulations. It provides run time typing, garbage collection, user data types, on the fly compilation.
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aime
A C-like, high level programming language and interpreter.
aime is a programming language intended for application extension purposes. It is simple, with a C like syntax and automatic resource management. The interpreter interface has many options for connecting the interpreted programs to the embedding application state. It allows application supervision with regard to such concerns as execution length, memory allocation, error reporting. A standalone interpreter together with many demo/test programs is included.
