Coluber: Open-Source Compiled Language Prioritizes Readability Over Syntax Clutter

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A developer has released Coluber, a personal open-source programming language designed to make code readable, simple, and fast. Written in Nim, Coluber transpiles source files into Nim or Vlang before compiling them into native binaries. The language draws on Python's indentation style while targeting compiled-language performance, and deliberately drops semicolons, curly braces, and conventional logical operators in favor of plain English-like keywords. A built-in Foreign Function Interface lets developers call existing C, Nim, Python, or JavaScript code using a single keyword, with dependencies automatically bundled alongside the output binary. The project is still a work in progress and is publicly available on both Codeberg and GitLab.

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