An Open Souce Programming Language

Gala is a typed multi-paradigm scripting and programming language, designed to be as simple as possible, while also offering familiar features such as function, classes.

If you come from a C-style language such as C, C++, Javascript, Go, Python, or similar, you should be immediately productive with Gala.

Gala is at a very early stage of development and as such it does not support many use-cases.

Current Features

Language

• Simplicity & familiarity - You should be able to start without reading too much docs.
• Unabiguous - There is typically one obvious way to do it.
• Typed - Types help you write correct code.

Implementation

The current compiler implementation is called Pygala and is written in Python/Clang.

• Fast - Gala is transpiled to C and compiled with Clang. This means it should be as fast as C.
• Compiled - Deployment is as easy as dropping the executable to the target system.
• Portable - Thanks to tranpilation to C, it runs everywhere where C does.

Roadmap Features

This describes the future features we want to have into the language

Language

• Unicode-only - Get away with encoding problems.
• Powerful - Include useful construct such as modules, classes, hash maps, lists to make development fast and complexity manageable.
• Safe - No memory problems.
• Concurrent - Concurrent programming should be as easy as Go.
• Big standard library - Based on C libraries and therefore stable and feature rich.
• Automatic type inference - Just like in Go.

Implementation

• Clear errors - Provide clear compilation errors.
• Fast compilation - Use caching automatically.
• Hot reloading - Embed the hot reloading into the compiler. Just type your code and it’s running.
• Package management - Integrate package management into the compiler so that there is a standard way to handle dependencies

Motivation

All languages that I tried have some problems: either they are not concurrent and scalable, they have crappy libraries, they are too low level or they are configuration and dependency hells.

Interested?

Intrested in gala. Check out the docs or drop me an e-mail at francescopasa@gmail.com.