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Life & fun · December 29, 2019

A pure functional programming language targeting decentralized systems

Clio is a functional, parallel, distributed programming language.

A pure functional programming language targeting decentralized systems launched on December 29, 2019 with 96 votes, #291 of 2,946 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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Clio is a pure functional programming language designed for decentralized systems. It launched in December 2019 and provides developers with a functional approach to building distributed applications. The language emphasizes immutability and function composition as core principles. It targets developers working on decentralized projects who want to leverage functional programming paradigms for creating reliable, distributed software systems.

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