Hello, Donna (A new Programming Language) (opens in new tab)

In the past few months, I have been designing and implementing a new programming language called Donna. Before I explain more about it, I want to be honest and mention that its development has been heavily assisted by AI. What's Donna Donna is a functional, statically typed, self-hosted programming language that compiles to native binaries using QBE as its compiler backend. Donna’s syntax is inspired mostly by Gleam, with a few Python-like touches. Bootstrap story The current compiler is the ...