(WIP) Axel = Haskell and Lisp
(WIP) Axel = Haskell and Lisp launched on April 16, 2020 with 11 votes, #1,240 of 5,003 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.
In plain words
Axel is a programming language that combines features from Haskell and Lisp, launched in 2020. It is designed for developers interested in functional programming paradigms that blend lazy evaluation and symbolic computation. The language emphasizes the syntactic and semantic characteristics of both parent languages, offering an alternative approach to code structure and evaluation for programmers exploring hybrid language designs.
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From the sources
(module Example) -- `LambdaCase` as a macro (defmacro \case (cases (do ( Features Extensibility With Axel, there's no need to rely on hard-coded compiler extensions to unlock the language's syntax. Everything from Axel's do -notation to list comprehensions are just macros, on the same level as those you'll imagine yourself. Macro definitions are compact, since Axel code can be easily converted into its corresponding AST. Just prefix an expression with one of the quotation operators to convert it into its abstract representation. (+ 1 2) -- 3 '(+ 1 2) -- (AST.SExpression <metadata> [(AST.LiteralInt <metadata> 1) (AST.LiteralInt <metadata>from axellang.github.io
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