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Products that do what Bern Programming Language does

A functionally inspired language focused on expressiveness.

1. 1B
   Bel▲1,288

   2019 · paulgraham.com

2. 2AS
   A small, weird and unpractical programming language▲89

   I've been spending some time coding fp. It is a programming language heavily inspired by the language John Backus described in his 1977 Turing Award lecture. There's plenty of examples in the projects github repository for the interested!

   2022 · github.com

3. 3SA
   ScrapScript – A tiny functional language for sharable software▲503

   Hi friends, I started casually working on scrapscript in 2015. I built a few compilers over the years to test out various ideas/implementations, and I think I'm finally happy with the overall design. The code is not public yet. Email me at [email protected] if you're interested in joining the core team later this year. Let me know if you have any questions or feedback :)

   2023 · scrapscript.org

4. 4RI
   Roc is a language for making delightful software▲10

   The roc-lang repository was made public, so I figured I'd share it here.

   2022 · github.com

5. 5AS
   Arturo – Simple, expressive and portable programming language▲207

   2021 · arturo-lang.io

6. 6
   uilang▲280

   A minimal, UI-focused programming language for web designers

   2014

7. 7
   Eve▲381

   Programming designed for humans

   2016

8. 8FS
   Fuse – statically typed functional programming language▲121

   Hi HN! I've been working on the fuse programming language, it's a statically typed purely functional language with higher-kinder types and ad-hoc polymorphism. It compiles to the GRIN whole-program optimizer, producing LLVM-generated native code. Fuse supports ADTs, Generics, Type Methods, Traits, Pattern matching etc. all in a functional style with no mutations. I’ve been developing the language for 5 years, with code written in Scala. I’ve started coding the language from the base of System F that was implemented as part of the book: Types and Programming Languages (tapl). And then…

   Aug 2026 · fuselang.org

9. 9GI
   Going into freshman year, figured I should build an interpreter▲138

   Hi all! I'm going into my freshman year, and figured that the best way to prepare for the intro to programming Racket course would be to implement my own garbage-collected, dynamically typed, functional programming language in C ;) Anyways... here's the repo: https://github.com/liam-ilan/crumb I started learning C over the summer, so I still have a whole lot to learn... Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! :D

   2023

10. 10AE
    An Express-inspired web framework for Rust▲85

    2022 · crates.io

11. 11
    Franz: Functional Programming Language▲5

    Keyword-free functional language with prototype objects.

    May 2026 · github.com

12. 12FA
    Fe – A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C▲143

    2020 · github.com

13. 13CA
    C3 – A C alternative that looks like C▲182

    Compiler link: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c Docs: http://www.c3-lang.org This is my follow-up "Show HN" from roughly a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27876570). Since then the language design has evolved and the compiler has gotten much more solid. Assorted extra info: - The C3 name is a homage to the C2 language project (http://c2lang.org) which it was originally inspired by. - Although C3 mostly conforms to C syntax, the most obvious change is requiring `fn` in front of the functions. This is to simplify searching for…

    2022

14. 14ZA
    Zyme – An Evolvable Programming Language▲161

    Zyme is an esoteric language for genetic programming: creating computer programs by means of natural selection.

    2024 · zyme.dev

15. 15CA
    C3 – A C alternative that looks like C▲120

    2021 · github.com

16. 16
    Rex, a parallel functional language for scientific workflows▲28

    https://peterkelly.github.io/rex/

    21d ago · github.com

17. 17PA
    Peridot – A functional language based on two-level type theory▲151

    2022 · github.com

18. 18IC
    I created a language called AntiLang – breaking all the conventions▲143

    AntiLang is an interpreted programming language written in Go. The basic idea of this is to keep all the logical parts of a language same, but reverse the structure of it. The idea for this project came when I was having a long midnight conversation with my friend and thought of writing such a weird language. The initial draft was far worse than the current implementation; we thought of reversing the brackets and the language would be read from bottom to top. I'm happy that I dropped that idea Technical details: As the interpreter is written in Golang, I compiled it to WASM, and the whole…

    2025 · siruscodes.github.io

19. 19VF
    Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED▲243

    Hi There, Erlang-RED has been my project for the last couple of months and I would love to get some feedback from the HN community. The idea is to take advantage of Erlangs message passing and low overhead processes to have true concurrency in Node-RED flows. Plus also to bring low-code visual flow-based programming to Erlang.

    2025 · github.com

20. 20NM
    Now my pet programming language can run in the browser▲74

    2024 · nbittich.github.io

21. 21AP
    A plain-text cognitive architecture for Claude Code▲157

    Mar 2026 · lab.puga.com.br

22. 22AW
    A work-in-progress C compiler from scratch▲159

    2021 · github.com

23. 23TC
    TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989▲178

    May 2026 · github.com

24. 24
    bestcodingpractices.dev▲92

    A place to learn, inspire and share best coding practices

    2023

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