Mill

Mill is a dynamically typed programming language with a focus on clarity, concurrency and specification.

Hello, world!

The hello world program reads as follows:

MAIN {
    outln("Hello, world!");
}

Influence

Mill takes ideas from many languages, in no particular order:

• Clojure: dynamic variables, protocols.
• D: contracts, exceptions.
• Eiffel: contracts, CQS.
• Elixir: pipelines.
• F#: type system.
• Go: concurrency, control structures, I/O.
• Haskell: monad syntax.
• Perl: control structures, special variables.
• Scala: pattern matching.
• Spec#: contracts.

Implementation

The implementation consists of a compiler called millc and a VM called mill. The compiler is written in Perl and the VM is written in C++.

Contributing

Like to contribute? Comment on one of the GitHub issues or create a new one!