Asymptote

Asymptote is an open source application created in 2004 by Andy Hammerlindl and John C. Bowman and Tom Prince.

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Asymptote is a descriptive vector graphics language — developed by Andy Hammerlindl, John C. Bowman (University of Alberta), and Tom Prince — which provides a natural coordinate-based framework for technical drawing. Asymptote runs on all major platforms (Unix, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows). Read more on Wikipedia...

Asymptote Wikipedia page
Asymptote first developed in University of Alberta
file extensions for Asymptote include asy
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 23 users using Asymptote in 25 repos on GitHub
Explore Asymptote snippets on Rosetta Code
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Asymptote
See also: (7 related languages)Unix, LaTeX, PostScript, PDF, SVG, Tex, Python

Example from Riju:

write("Hello, world!");

Example from Wikipedia:

import graph;
import settings;
outformat="pdf";

size(300,300);

// Function.
real[] x1 = {-1.5,0};
real[] y1 = {0,0};
real[] x2 = {0,1.5};
real[] y2 = {1,1};
draw(graph(x1,y1),red+2);
draw(graph(x2,y2),red+2);

draw((0,0)--(0,1),red+1.5+linetype("4 4"));
fill( circle((0,1),0.035), red);
filldraw( circle((0,0),0.03), white, red+1.5);

// Axes.
xaxis( Label("$x$"), Ticks(new real[]{-1,-0.5,0.5,1}), Arrow);
yaxis( Label("$y$"), Ticks(new real[]{0.5,1}), Arrow, ymin=-0.18, ymax=1.25);
// Origin.
labelx("$O$",0,SW);

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