HW is a modern, open-source, turing-incomplete programming language, designed for the 21st century.
HW is a typeless, interpreted language, so you'll never have to worry about those pesky compile times slowing down your development cycle.
HW is turing-incomplete by nature, so you can safely install it on your embedded systems without risk of attackers using it to execute unsanctioned code.
With its laissez-faire approach to syntax strictness, you don't have to worry about syntax errors at all. You'll be up and running in no time!
International accessibility is important, and we're delighted to say that in addition to plain ASCII, HW also supports source code encoded in UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32, SHIFT-JIS, and numerous others.
HW source files conventionally use the .hw file extension, though the interpreter will happily accept files with other extensions.
To run a HW program, invoke the interpreter hw from a command-line, and provide the source files as command-line arguments. For example:
$ hw examples/hello-world.hw
If you provide multiple source files to the HW interpreter, they will be executed as if the files were concatenated into a single file. If you provide a path to a file that doesn't exist, the interpreter will treat it as an empty file instead of raising an error. Similarly, if you provide no paths, the interpreter will assume you intended to pass an empty file.
A statement in HW is considered to be any number of consecutive bytes, terminated by an end-of-file. All statements in HW will elicit the same execution from the interpreter - hence the turing-incompleteness.
Despite being turing-incomplete, it is possible to implement a quine in HW. Source code for this is provided in the examples/ folder.
Building the HW interpreter on *nix systems couldn't be simpler! Drop a shell, cd into the source repository, and execute the following commands:
make
make install
(It is assumed that you know how to drop a shell, and that you have a C compiler installed and accessible via CC)
Windows support is Coming Soon™.
HW does not yet have an IRC support network, nor does it have an official Discord or Slack. We're thinking about it.
Changes to the interpreter source code are unlikely to be accepted. Improvements to the build scripts and documentation will be considered with more leniency.
When referring to the language, it should be capitalised 'HW'. When referring to the interpreter, it should be lower-case 'hw'. All other forms, either variations on capitalisation or using homoglyphs, are unacceptable and may incur legal action.
HW is distributed under the terms of the WTFPL. See LICENSE for more details.