okta

A new programming language for the hacker

Okta is a new, open source, general-purpose programming language that, although it’s still in its childhood, aims to provide a simple platform to create low level, efficient software.

• Simple: Okta is simple and it will remain simple. The objective is to build a programming language that can be fully understood by human beings.

• Efficient: Okta source code is translated into LLVM-IR. This opens the door to many state-of-the-art code optimizations, resulting in blazingly fast binaries.

• Familiar: Okta avoids alien syntax. If you already know C-like languages, you will feel okta familiar.

• Flexible: Okta provides a simple, yet powerful macro system based on Lua. Create and modify the AST of okta programs in compile time with macros written in lua!

• Free: Okta is and it will always be free as in freedom. It is released under the GPLv3 license.

type Aquarium = struct {
    animals: [Animal; 2],
    num_corals: u32,
}

type Animal = enum {
    Nemo,
    Dori,
    Ottis { tentacles: u8, size: f64 },
}

fun main(): i8 {
    let ottis = Animal:Ottis {
        tentacles = 8,
        size = 1.42,
    };

    let aquarium = Aquarium {
        animals = [ Animal:Nemo, ottis ],
        num_corals = 16,
    };

    ret 0;
}

Take a look at the examples here to get a taste of okta 🐙.

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Okta started as a summer project with the objective of learning about compilers, programming language design and LLVM. That summer ended, and nowadays, I continue to develop okta in my free time. However, okta continues to be a single developer project, with all of its downsides and benefits. Please, feel free to contact me, all help and feedback is very appreciated!!