Announcing the Hare programming language

Hare is a systems programming language designed to be simple, stable, and robust. Hare uses a static type system, manual memory management, and a minimal runtime. It is well-suited to writing operating systems, system tools, compilers, networking software, and other low-level, high performance tasks.

Here is my favorite example program, which computes its own SHA-256 hash:

We have been developing Hare in private for about two and a half years, and have decided that it’s now time to offer it to you to play with. Hare is a reasonably (though not entirely) complete programming language that you can pick up today and start writing interesting and useful systems software with. If you’d like to try it out, check out theinstallation procedure, then the Hare tutorial.