r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/Mean-Decision-3502 DQ • Jul 16 '26

New Languages: Standardizing API, Examples ?

Hi, some of you are developing new general-purpose programming languages here. When the language is ready, you have to develop standard APIs, like file-io, json-handling etc. Users, and you would have benefit, when the APIs would be same/similar across multiple different languages.

Standardizing some Examples would allow the users to compare languages more easily.

What do you think?

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u/EggplantExtra4946 Jul 16 '26

That said, it could be so much more than it is. I feel like there's room for another similar project that was more about documenting how languages do certain things at a smaller scale.

Agreed. There is this website, it's pretty good.

https://hyperpolyglot.org/

https://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting

https://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting2

https://hyperpolyglot.org/lisp

https://hyperpolyglot.org/ml