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Heron

Heron - Programming language

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Heron is a programming language created in 2016 by Christopher Diggins.

Source code:
git clone https://github.com/cdiggins/heron-language
#1513on PLDB 8Years Old

A pure functional type-inferred language based on JavaScript


Example from the web:
// Named function with statement body function sum(xs) { var result = 0; for (var x in xs) result += x; return result; }

Language features

Feature Supported Token Example
Comments ✓
// A comment
Line Comments ✓ //
// A comment
Semantic Indentation X

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