ZULU Programming Language

Key features

• functional programming
• function overloading (using clauses)
• pattern matching
• simple syntax (only 16 keywords)
• concurrency (TODO)
• null safety
• tuple support
• built-in optimization (constant folding, propagation, expression simplification and more)
• support for list, hashmap, string, number, atoms
• interop with JVM programs
• go style error handling

Zulu is a interpreted rust-like language based on JVM.

Example

Installation

Install the latest release and Java SE 21 and Apache Ant.

$ git clone [email protected]:hexaredecimal/Zulu.git
$ cd Zulu
$ ant
$ ./install.sh

After running these commands Zulu should be installed in the .local/bin directory.

$ zulu help

Usage

Project

$ zulu new
 Enter project name: <project_name>
$ cd code
$ nvim main.zulu

To compile a project just type zulu and it will build and run.

References

• Barley - Forked parent
• Elixir - Inspiration
• Rust - Inspiration
• Standard_ML - Inspiration
• Go - Inspiration
• Java - Compiler and FFI implementations