Ajla

Ajla (pronounced "Ayla") is a purely functional programming language that is easy to use and that has look-and-feel like traditional procedural languages. Ajla is free software released under the GPL3 license.

Ajla is purely functional, that means that every function's return value depends only on its arguments.
Ajla has mutable local variables - they don't break purity, so they are allowed.
Ajla doesn't have mutable global variables, because they break purity and they introduce side effects and race conditions.
Ajla has control flow statements like if, while, for, goto - they don't break purity, so they are allowed.
Ajla is memory-safe - i.e. you can't create segmentation fault in Ajla. Ajla doesn't have garbage collection, it uses reference counts to manage memory.
Ajla has efficient mutable arrays - if an array's reference count is one, the array is modified in place. If not, a copy of the array is created and modified.
Because Ajla is purely functional, it can automatically distribute workload across multiple cores.
For sequencing I/O, Ajla uses world-token passing and not monads.

See Ajla tutorial. See Advent of code 2023 solutions in Ajla.

Download Ajla 0.1.2 source code and binaries for OS/2 and Win64. Go to downloads directory.

Clone Ajla git from git://repo.or.cz/ajla.git. After cloning it, you need to run the script ./rebuild to generate autoconf-generated files. See Ajla gitweb.

See Ajla Commander - a Midnight Commander clone written in Ajla.

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