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Chapel is an open source programming language created in 2004 by David Callahan and Hans Zima and Brad Chamberlain and John Plevyak.

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git clone https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel

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Chapel, the Cascade High Productivity Language, is a parallel programming language developed by Cray. It is being developed as part of the Cray Cascade project, a participant in DARPA's High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) program, which had the goal of increasing supercomputer productivity by the year 2010. It is being developed as an open source project, under version 2 of the Apache license.. Read more on Wikipedia...

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Chapel is developed on GitHub and has 1,454 stars
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There are at least 212 Chapel repos on GitHub
Chapel first developed in Cray
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The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 50 users using Chapel in 55 repos on GitHub
There are 12,989 members in the Chapel subreddit
There are 11 Project Euler users using Chapel
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Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Chapel
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Chapel
Release Notes for Chapel
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Indeed.com has 1 matches for "chapel developer".
chapel-lang.org was registered in 2014
See also: (9 related languages)Ada, C#, C, Fortran, Java, Fortress, UPC, X10, ISBN
Read more about Chapel on the web: 1.

Example from hello-world:

writeln("Hello World");

Example from Linguist:

writeln("Hello, world!");    // print 'Hello, world!' to the console

Chapel Keywords

_ align atomic begin break by class cobegin coforall config const continue delete dmapped do domain else enum export extern for forall if in index inline inout iter label let local module new nil on otherwise out param proc record reduce ref return scan select serial single sparse subdomain sync then type union use var when where while yield zip

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Binary Literals	✓		// 0[bB][01]+
Integers	✓		// [0-9]+
Floats	✓		// (\d*\.\d+)([eE][+-]?[0-9]+)?i?
Hexadecimals	✓		// 0[xX][0-9a-fA-F]+
Octals	✓		// 0[oO][0-7]+
Conditionals	✓
Constants	✓
Classes	✓
While Loops	✓
Strings	✓	"	"Hello world"
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* */	/* A comment */
Print() Debugging	✓	writeln
Line Comments	✓	//	// A comment
Comments	✓
Case Insensitive Identifiers	X
Semantic Indentation	X

Language features