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Dev tools · January 2, 2024

The Sage Programming Language

Sage is a Rust-like programming language built on a brainfuck-inspired VM with LLVM-like properties. https://github.com/adam-mcdaniel/sage Check out the web-demo to run the compiler in the browser, along with a graphical example using JavaScript interop! https://adam-mcdaniel.net/sage Sage is designed to be portable, but also useful. To prove its usefulness, I used it to implement a user-space for a new operating system: SageOS https://github.com/adam-mcdaniel/sage-os The language also runs on embedded devices, like the flipper zero!

The Sage Programming Language launched on January 2, 2024 with 114 votes, #491 of 4,438 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

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In plain words

Sage is a Rust-like programming language built on a brainfuck-inspired virtual machine with LLVM-like compilation properties. Designed for portability across platforms, it runs in web browsers, powers the user-space of SageOS, and executes on embedded devices including the Flipper Zero. Developers can test the compiler directly in a web demo that includes JavaScript interoperability features.

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A programming language that's wise beyond its bytes!🌱🌿🪴 - adam-mcdaniel/sage

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