AI BriefingProgramming Language Jam Results Announced
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Basil was selected as the overall winner of the 'Programming Language Jam,' a programming language design competition.
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The results of the Programming Language Jam, a programming language design competition, have been announced. The overall winner was Basil, developed by undergraduate students at the University of Michigan.
Basil is a lightweight language with homoiconic syntax that emphasizes high performance and expressiveness. While inheriting characteristics of Lisp, it has the following distinguishing features.
- Supports statically-typed and compiled approach
- Reduces parentheses through use of whitespace and supports infix operator
- A compiler designed with evaluation as a core feature of the pipeline
The judging criteria for this jam were Freshness, Value, Polish, and Technical difficulty. The overall winning team will be awarded a total prize of $10,000.
The winners in each category are as follows.
- Freshness: Roman
- Value: Browse
- Polish: Codeflow
- Technical difficulty: Volant
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