awesome-low-level-programming-languages

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A curated list of low level programming languages (i.e. suitable for OS and game programming)

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Low-level langs

A curated list of programming languages suitable for low-level systems and game development.

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ATS

http://www.ats-lang.org/
main:
https://github.com/ats-lang
repo:

ATS / documentation:

ATS / discussion:

ATS

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Ada / documentation: / Reference Manuals:

Ada 2022
Next
Ada 2012
Current
Ada 2005
Ada 1995
Ada 1983
First ISO standard

Ada / documentation:

https://github.com/ohenley/awesome-ada
awesome-ada
6562 years
https://learn.adacore.com/
http://groups.umd.umich.edu/cis/course.des/cis400/ada/ada.html

Ada

LLVM
backends: GCC (gnat), , several commerical implementations
185almost 2 years
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Alumina

https://docs.alumina-lang.net/
main:
https://github.com/tibordp/alumina
repo:
181almost 2 years

Alumina / documentation:

https://docs.alumina-lang.net/

Alumina / discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32702812

Alumina

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Beef

https://www.beeflang.org/
main:
https://github.com/beefytech/Beef/
repo:
2.5Kalmost 2 years

Beef / documentation:

https://github.com/Jonathan-Racaud/awesome-beef
awesome-beef
178almost 2 years

Beef / discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21991382

Beef

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C / documentation:

https://github.com/inputsh/awesome-c
3.5K4 years
https://github.com/uhub/awesome-c
2Kalmost 2 years

C

pldb

C++ / documentation:

https://isocpp.org/std/the-standard
standard
https://en.cppreference.com/w/
reference
https://github.com/fffaraz/awesome-cpp
awesome-cpp
60.6Kalmost 2 years
https://github.com/fenbf/AwesomePerfCpp
AwesomePerfCpp
2.4K4 years

C++

pldb

C2

http://www.c2lang.org/
main:
https://github.com/c2lang/
repo:

C2 / documentation:

http://c2lang.org/site/

C2 / discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=c2lang.org

C2

http://www.c3-lang.org/firstproject/
hello-world:
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C3

http://www.c3-lang.org/
main:
https://github.com/c3lang/c3c
repo:
3.1Kalmost 2 years

C3 / documentation:

http://www.c3-lang.org/compare/

C3 / discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27876570

C3

http://www.c3-lang.org/firstproject/
hello-world:
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Carp

https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp
main:
5.6Kalmost 2 years
https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp
repo:
5.6Kalmost 2 years

Carp / documentation:

https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp/blob/master/docs/LanguageGuide.md
language guide:
5.6Kalmost 2 years

Carp / discussion:

Carp

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Cone

https://cone.jondgoodwin.com/
main:
https://github.com/jondgoodwin/cone
repo:
529almost 4 years

Cone / documentation:

https://cone.jondgoodwin.com/coneref/index.html
reference:

Cone / discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19565824

Cone / highlights:

Crystal

https://crystal-lang.org/
main:
https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal
repo:
19.5Kalmost 2 years
Lilith Kernel
note: use garbage collection but it is possible to strip out runtime (see )
1.2K6 years

Crystal / documentation:

https://crystal-lang.org/reference/

Crystal / discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=kitlang.org

Crystal

Sophisticated macro system
meta-programming:
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CSpydr

https://github.com/Spydr06/CSpydr
main:
87almost 2 years
https://github.com/Spydr06/CSpydr
repo:
87almost 2 years
https://github.com/Spydr06/CSpydr/wiki
documentation:
87almost 2 years
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D

https://dlang.org/
main:
https://github.com/dlang
repo: , ,

D / documentation:

https://dlang.org/spec/spec.html
spec
https://dlang.org/comparison.html
overview

D

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Forth / documentation:

http://www.forth.org/

Forth

pldb

Hare

https://harelang.org/
main:
https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hare/
repo:

Hare / documentation:

https://harelang.org/documentation/

Hare / major projects using the language:

Hare

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Hylo

https://www.hylo-lang.org
main:
https://github.com/hylo-lang/hylo
repo:
1.3Kalmost 2 years
https://docs.hylo-lang.org/language-tour/
documentation:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31788527
discussion:

Jai / documentation:

https://inductive.no/jai/
inofficial
https://github.com/BSVino/JaiPrimer/blob/master/JaiPrimer.md
inofffical
1.8Kover 5 years
https://www.youtube.com/user/jblow888/videos
Jonathan Blow YT channel
https://github.com/Jai-Community/Jai-Community-Library
Community Library
3344 years

Kit

https://www.kitlang.org/
main:
https://github.com/kitlang/kit
repo:
1K5 years

Kit / discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=kitlang.org

Lobster

http://aardappel.github.io/lobster/README_FIRST.html
main:
https://github.com/aardappel/lobster
repo:
2.3Kalmost 2 years

Lobster / discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19567160

Modula-2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2
main:

Modula-2 / repo:

https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/devel/modula-2
Gnu Modula 2 Frontend (gm2)

Modula-2 / documentation:

Modula-2

Medos-2
major projects using the language:
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Nim

https://nim-lang.org/
main:

Nim / repo:

https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim
16.7Kalmost 2 years

Nim / documentation:

https://nim-lang.org/documentation.html

Nim / discussions:

Nim / major projects using the language:

https://github.com/dom96/jester
1.6Kover 2 years
https://github.com/karaxnim/karax
1.1Kalmost 2 years
https://github.com/planety/prologue
1.3Kalmost 2 years

Nim

pldb

Oberon

http://www.projectoberon.com
main:

Oberon / note:

Obereon-7 (2007)
There are serveral flavors of Oberon ( Oberon-2 (1992), , , )

Oberon / repo:

https://github.com/oberon-lang/
Oberon+

Oberon / documentation:

http://www.projectoberon.com

Oberon / discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21557057

Oberon

pldb

Odin

https://odin-lang.org/
main:
https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin
repo:
7.1Kalmost 2 years

Odin / documentation:

Odin / discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22199942

Odin

EmberGen
major projects using the language:
pldb

Pascal (FreePascal)

https://www.freepascal.org/
main:
https://github.com/fpc
repo:
https://www.freepascal.org/docs.html
documentation:

Pascal (FreePascal) / discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=freepascal.org

Pascal (FreePascal)

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Rust

https://www.rust-lang.org/
main:
https://github.com/rust-lang
repo:

Rust / documentation:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

Rust

Firefox
major projects using the language: numerous (including large parts of )
pldb

Scopes

https://scopes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
main:
https://hg.sr.ht/~duangle/scopes
repo:

Scopes / discussion:

V

https://vlang.io/
main:
https://github.com/vlang
repo:

V / documentation:

https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md
35.9Kalmost 2 years

V / discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=vlang.io

V

pldb

Vale

https://vale.dev/
main:
https://github.com/ValeLang/Vale
repo:
1.8Kover 2 years

Vale / documentation:

https://vale.dev/guide/introduction
introduction
https://www.reddit.com/r/vale/

Vale / discussion:

Vox

https://github.com/MrSmith33/vox
main:
344over 2 years
https://github.com/MrSmith33/vox
repo:
344over 2 years

Zig

https://ziglang.org
main:
https://github.com/ziglang/zig
repo:
35.4Kalmost 2 years

Zig / documentation:

https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/

Zig / discussion:

Zig

tigerbeetle
major projects using the language:
10.9Kalmost 2 years
pldb