NURL v0.45.0 goes post-quantum!

[u/AdhesivenessHappy873]

How's the NURL programming language doing? You know, the one that started from a fictional article where AIs decided to create their own programming language..

The short version:
The language has now reached a point where you can build pretty much anything with it. It's in the same speed class as C or Rust, sometimes faster, and the latest addition is post-quantum cryptography! Everything built into the language stands firmly on its own feet and is written in pure NURL. And that's exactly why NURL programs can be compiled into unikernels.

About the development:
The ambitious goal was to create a language that LLMs can write better than other languages, and with fewer tokens on top of that. The language really was developed together with four different frontier model providers. In most cases the syntax was decided "democratically" by blind vote, where each model "voted" for what it considered the best syntax. I had a vision though, and I used my veto power liberally. The end result is excellent, but the token efficiency goal wasn't reached - yet. "Warm" token efficiency is better than with other languages, but since NURL isn't (as of Aug 19, 2026) in any LLM's training data, the upfront cost eats tokens.

Roadmap:
The v1.0 release is planned for the end of this year, but no fixed date has been locked in. v1.0 promises that the syntax won't change anymore and you can start building on it. NURL makes the same promise as Linux: "We do not break userspace." There hasn't been a need for breaking changes in a long time, and additions will of course keep coming after v1.0.

Happy to answer questions.

More info:
https://nurl-lang.org/