Her name is [geksa]
Hexa is a high level, strictly typed programming language that compiles to JavaScript and native apps
- JavaScript-inspired syntax and behavior, feel yourself like at home!
- Native performance with static types and optimizing compiler
- Follows node.js (and browser) API
- Fast compilation
- Compiles to JavaScript, WebAssembly, osdev, LLVM, C, C++, ObjC, ... you name it! (WIP)
- Transpilation to almost anything: Lua, AutoCAD Lisp, C#, PHP, etc (WIP)
- Transpilation produce human-readable code for all targets
- Null safety, crash resistance, pattern matching, classes (WIP)
- Real multithreading, parallelism, async\await, no GC (WIP)
- Smart type inference makes other typed languages look boring
- Friendly and helpful error messages
- Supports
#!shebang
and scripting (just callhexa script.hexa
) - REPL (enable with just
hexa
command) - Metaprogramming with syntax-tree, generics and contracts (WIP)
- Completely cross-platform
WIP — Work in progress, coming soon
Release of 0.1 expected in Fall 2019
Coming Soon
— no releases actually available, yet
- Sublime Text 3 — hexalang/hexa-sublime-bundle
- Visual Studio Code / VSCode — hexalang/hexa-vscode-bundle
- Atom — hexalang/hexa-atom-bundle
- Package manager — hexalang/packages
- Follow progress
- Sources of inspiration
- Getting started guide for beginners
- Some code examples
- Comparison with other languages for experienced developers
- Why Hexa?
- Contribute your compilation target
While compiler is in dev, here's some cool music to listen 🎧
You need to download latest long-term Node.js LTS. The Hexa Compiler is written in Hexa itself. Pre-built compiler (bootstrapper) already included in the repo.
git clone --recursive --depth 100 https://github.com/hexalang/hexa.git
cd hexa
node bootstrap.js hexa.json
# This results in a `hexa-node.js` file in the root of the repo
# Call `node hexa-node.js project.json` to build your projects
Optionally to build .exe and add icon:
npm i -g nexe
nexe-build.bat
Learn more about compiler development
See LICENSE files for full license texts and headers of each file (files in same directory may use different licensing models). If license is not mentioned in header then LICENSE file in upper directory level to be considered.
Compiler and some tools are under Lesser GPL 3.0 (feel free to include as a library in closed source projects), standard libraries and examples are under MIT.