A general-purpose open-source programming language and compiler designed to provide developers with an elegant and concise development experience, enabling them to build secure and reliable cross-platform software simply and efficiently.
- ✓ Simple, natural, and consistent syntax design
- ✓ Independent compilation system, no dependency on llvm, supports cross-platform compilation
- ✓ Well-formed type system with support for generics, null-value safety, and error handling
- ✓ Automated GC, with very short STW
- ✓ Modularity and package management system, npkg
- ✓ Built-in shared-stack concatenation, millions of concatenation switches per second
- ✓ Built-in libuv cooperates with the concatenation to handle IO event loops
- ✓ Built-in implementations of common data structures and standard libraries, and easy interaction with C
- ✓ Editor lsp support
- ○ Asymptotic GC, capable of manual memory management
- ○ Tests DSLs, efficient and stable use of AI coding
- ○ macho cross-platform connector, currently lacks the macho linker darwin can't be cross-platform compilation.
- ○ Improvement of collaborative scheduling system
- ○ Cross-platform compilation support for wasm and risc64 platforms
- ○ Compilation to readable golang programming language
The nature programming language has reached a usable version, and the syntax APIs are basically stable, there will not be any drastic changes before version 1.0, but there are some minor syntax changes.
The current version of nature source code supports compilation on the following target platforms
- linux/amd64
- linux/arm64
- darwin/amd64
- darwin/arm64
nature includes a set of test cases and a standard library to test the usability of the syntax, but it has not been tested on a medium to large scale project, and so there are still many bugs.
Major work in the next versions of The main work is
- Standard library refinement
- Gathering user feedback
- Project validation and bug fixes
- Refinement of language features
- Compilation into a readable golang programming language to increase the usability of the nature programming language
Official website: https://nature-lang.org
Download and extract the Nature package from releases. It's recommended to move the extracted nature folder to /usr/local/ and add /usr/local/nature/bin to your system's PATH.
Create a main.n file:
import fmt
fn main() {
fmt.printf('hello nature')
}Compile and run:
> nature build main.n && ./main
hello nature
Editor support: https://github.com/nature-lang/nls
Code examples: https://github.com/nature-lang/nature/tree/master/tests/features/cases
https://nature-lang.org/docs/getting-started/hello-world
https://nature-lang.org/docs/prologue/contribution-guide
The compiler frontend, backend, runtime, and other project source code are licensed under the Apache License (Version 2.0). Nature source files (.n) included in the current project, such as the standard library, are licensed under the MIT License.
