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Lux is a new programming language in the making. It's meant to be a functional, statically-typed Lisp that will run on several platforms, such as the Java Virtual Machine and JavaScript, Python, Lua, or Ruby interpreters. Lux is in the beta stage. The JVM compiler is pretty stable and the standard library has grown to a respectable size. Also, new experimental support for JavaScript, Python, Lua, and Ruby has been added. Read carefully before using this project, as the license disallows commercial use, and has other conditions which may be undesirable for some. The language is mostly inspired by the following 3 languages. Clojure (syntax, overall look & feel), Haskell (functional programming), and Standard ML (module system). They are implemented as plain-old data-structures whose expressions get eval'ed by the compiler and integrated into the type-checker. The main difference between Lux & Standard ML is that Standard ML separates interfaces/signatures and implementations/structures.
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- Lux is in the beta stage
- The JVM compiler is pretty stable and the standard library has grown to a respectable size
- Also, new experimental support for JavaScript, Python, Lua, and Ruby has been added
- Lux is a new programming language in the making
- Haskell's type-class system forces the user to only specify 1 instance for any given type-class and its argument
- The module system is heavily inspired by Standard ML
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