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Hexa

Her name is [Geksa]

Hexa is a high level, strictly typed programming language that compiles to JavaScript and native apps

Key features of Hexa

JavaScript-inspired syntax and behavior, feel yourself like at home!
Native performance with static types and optimizing compiler
Follows node.js (and browser) API
Fast compilation
Compiles to JavaScript, WebAssembly, osdev, LLVM, C, C++, ObjC, ... you name it! (WIP)
Transpilation to almost anything: Lua, AutoCAD Lisp, C#, PHP, etc (WIP)
Produces human-readable code for all targets
Null safety, crash resistance, pattern matching, classes (WIP)
Real multithreading, parallelism, async\await, no GC (WIP)
Smart type inference makes other typed languages look boring
Friendly and helpful error messages
Supports #!shebang and scripting (just call hexa script.hexa)
REPL (enable with just hexa command)
Metaprogramming with syntax-tree, generics and contracts (WIP)
Completely cross-platform
We are working on optional memory ownership model (similar to borrow checker) and side effects system (WIP)

WIP — Work in progress, coming soon

Download

kawaii is the development branch and accepts pull requests
artifacts are built from each kawaii branch commit

Stable

Unstable

Tools & IDE

Visual Studio Code / VSCode — hexalang/hexa-vscode-bundle is the best supported IDE plugin right now!
Sublime Text 3 — hexalang/hexa-sublime-bundle
Atom — hexalang/hexa-atom-bundle
Package manager — hexalang/packages

AI Autocomplete

Install Codeium then open .hexa file and confirm experimental Hexa support.

Study

Build

You need to download latest long-term Node.js LTS. The Hexa Compiler is written in Hexa itself. Pre-built compiler (bootstrapper) already included in the repo.

git clone --recursive --depth 100 https://github.com/hexalang/Hexa.git
cd Hexa
node bootstrap.js hexa.json
node hexa-node.js hexa.json
# This results in a `hexa-node.js` file in the root of the repo
# Call `node hexa-node.js project.json` to build your projects

You may now add the folder into your PATH.

Learn more about compiler development

License

See LICENSE files for full license texts and headers of each file (files in same directory may use different licensing models). If license is not mentioned in header then LICENSE file in upper directory level to be considered.

Compiler and some tools are under Lesser GPL 3.0 (feel free to include as a library in closed source projects), standard libraries and examples are under MIT.