Peek inside

• Is Ajla programming language useful for you?
• Screenshots of example programs: a file manager, a smartphone to PDF document scanner, and a sunset calculator for outdoor walks.
• Hybrid technology pairs crash prevention of functional core with ease of procedural syntax, including keywords like if, for, and goto.
• GPL free software that runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, Android and more.
• For experts: purely functional, thunks, mutable local vars, immutable globals, ref-counting, efficient mutable arrays, parallel execution automation, world-token passing, no monads, pre/postconditions supported, Z3 verification & proof

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What is Ajla?

Ajla is a purely functional programming language aiming at ease of use that has a look-and-feel like traditional procedural languages. Ajla is free software released under the GPL3 license.

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Installation manual including download

Includes the download step at the right moment.

• Install from
  • source tarball
  • Git
  • binaries
• Test whether Ajla is installed correctly.
• Uninstall

News

• 8 Nov 2025: Ajla 0.3.1 released
• 28 Oct 2025: Ajla 0.3.0 released
• 27 Jul 2025: Ajla 0.2.2 released
• 13 Jul 2025: Ajla 0.2.1 released
• 28 Nov 2024: Ajla 0.2.0 released
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Documentation

• Reference manual
• Programming tutorial
• Commandline options
• Compilation options (./configure)

Download without install

Please start with the installation manual, which includes the download step, not directly with a download.

Ajla 0.3.1 downloads available:

• source code
• binaries for OS/2
• binaries for Win64
• downloads directory
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Example programs

dng2pdf produces PDF from RAW smartphone camera DNG with a sophisticated sharpening algorithm.

acmd (Ajla Commander) file manager resembles Midnight Commander.

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Prerequisites

Hardware

• 1 GB RAM
• 210 MB hard disk

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Troubleshooting

• Slowness: try to set your operating system's CPU governor to "performance", not "ondemand". The "ondemand" governor tends to determine the required clock speed incorrectly and underclocks the CPU cores.
• Slowness on iPhone iSH: this is an inevitable consequence of Apple's decision to ban native execution on the CPU, so it has to be emulated, which leads to ~ 6 times slowdown.

Contacts

• Send comments to [email protected]
• We have a mailing list at https://www.freelists.org/list/ajla