Hackett - Programming language

Hackett is an open source programming language created in 2017 by Alexis King.

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Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/lexi-lambda/hackett

Hackett is an attempt to implement a Haskell-like language with support for Racket’s macro system, built using the techniques described in the paper Type Systems as Macros.

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Hackett is developed on GitHub and has 1,159 stars
Early development of Hackett happened in https://github.com/lexi-lambda/hackett/issues
Hackett is written in Racket, Markdown, YAML, CSS, Bourne shell

Example from the web:

#lang hackett

(data (Maybe a)
  Nothing
  (Just a))

(def x : Integer
  (let ([y 3]
        [z 7])
    {y + z}))

(class (Show a)
  [show : {a -> String}])

(instance (forall [a] (Show a) => (Show (Maybe a)))
  [show (λ* [[(Just x)] {"(Just " ++ (show x) ++ ")"}]
            [[Nothing ] "Nothing"])])