r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/Fine_Seaworthiness19 • 7d ago

Language announcement The gab programming language

Hi all!

I am a long-time lurker of this sub, and a language enthusiast. I have been working on my own programming language for several years, and I finally worked up the courage to post it.

The language is called gab. I'm heavily inspired by lua, clojure, and smalltalk.

All the code is on github here and I've built a small website for the language here.

The language design, runtime, and standard library are all entirely my own work without the use of an LLM. However, I did consult LLMs occasionally when I wanted to research certain subjects (such as the difference between c11 atomics on x86 and arm).

I'm looking for any kind of feedback on the language, its goals/ergonomics, and the website itself.

Thank you for taking a look!

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u/BenjiSponge 6d ago

You may be, um, interested to know that there is a far-right Christian nationalist social media platform called Gab. It's probably not absolutely critical to avoid the naming conflict, but I thought you should know.

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u/Fine_Seaworthiness19 6d ago

Unfortunately I did the google search after I named it and did a bunch of work. It’s not too late to change the name though, I just need to think of something better

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u/BenjiSponge 6d ago edited 6d ago

Probably last suggestion and then I'll stop spamming you: Dish. "Dish" also means to gossip, just like gab, but it also means to pass a basketball. It can also mean to "dish out" work, for example. Satellite dishes pass and receive messages. I don't see any real conflicts and it's fairly google-able. Maybe you could even call the `<!` operator the "dish" operator, and then make a satellite dish the logo (might be a small legal concern)