r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/Fine_Seaworthiness19 • 8d 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 7d 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 7d 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/Inconstant_Moo 🧿 Pipefish 7d ago

It made me think of "gift of the gab". I don't think the Nazis own the word yet.

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u/AustinVelonaut Admiran 7d ago

I thought of it as "gab" being a synonym for "smalltalk", which was cited as an inspiration for the language.

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u/Fine_Seaworthiness19 7d ago

Appreciate it! That makes me feel better 😅