🧿 Pipefish

Welcome to Pipefish!

Pipefish is a delightful general-purpose language particularly suitable for rapid development of CRUD apps, middleware, distributed servivces, and DSLs to wrap them in. With the semantics of a functional language, with syntax borrowed from mainstream productivity languages (specifically Python and Go), and with inspiration mainly from SQL and Excel — Pipefish is not quite like anything you’ve ever seen. But it is also a very practical language that exists to solve some very ordinary “white-collar” problems.

The core language is 97% feature-complete; it currently has 41 standard libraries; there is tooling; there is a wiki; there are plenty of features including some you’ve never heard or thought of.

It benchmarks very competitively on [independent…