Nova Programming Language

See nova_bytecode for my latest attempt to rewrite Nova and make it faster.

Note: The full set of features is supported in the initial Python version I wrote; not all features have been ported to the Rust versions yet.

Nova is a functional programming language inspired by Lisp, Haskell, and Python.

• Dynamically typed

• Lazy evaluation

• Tail call optimization

• Curried and higher order functions

• Importing code

To be ported from Python version:

• String and list processing

• Operator precedence with >> (pipe), $, function application by spaces and parentheses

Example code:

>>> (def recr (x) (if (eq x 0) 0 (add x (recr (pred x)))))
recr(x) => (if (eq x 0) 0 (add x (recr (pred x))))

>>> (def app (f elem) (f elem))
app(f,elem) => (f elem)

>>> (app recr 3)
6
>>>

Factorial

(def fac (n)
    (if (eq n 0) 1
        (let p (pred n) (mul n (fac p)))
    )
)

>>> (fac 4)
24