Nu - Programming language

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...

Tags: programming language
There are at least 215 Nu repos on GitHub
Early development of Nu happened in https://github.com/programming-nu
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 331 users using Nu in 375 repos on GitHub
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Nu
See also: (6 related languages) X86, Lisp, Objective-C, Ruby, Linux, F-Script

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