Introduction to Hascal Programming Language

Hascal is a simple, fast, powerful compiled language for developing systems, IoT and cloud projects.

Features :

• Cross Platform (Linux, Windows, MacOS)
• Fast & Powerful
• C-Family Syntax, inspired by C, Swift, Pascal
• Compiles to C++
• It's written in Python
• Native binaries with no dependency
• Can program Arduino boards with Hascal
• Built-In Lua Interpreter
• Hawkai project manager(similiar to cargo in rust)

Examples

Hello World :

function main(): int {
  println("Hello World")
  return 0
}

Run Lua Code :

import lua
function main(): int {
  RunLua("print 'hello from lua in hascal'")
  return 0
}

Other details available in our github repo

Comments

[Matt Ellen-Tsivintzeli]

The name is an interesting choice. When talking about it do you have to say "Hascal, not that one, ..."? Or do you pronounce it very differently to Haskell?

[bistcuite]

It's pronounced similar to Pascal

[Matt Ellen-Tsivintzeli]

😁 so just like Haskell