Discover 5 Quirky New Programming Languages Shaking Up Development

As programming languages evolve, developers explore new fun and meaningful options.

Bhai-lang

“Bhai-lang” is a joke‑crafted language created by Aniket Singh (Amazon) and Rishabh Tripathi (Groww). It mimics Java syntax, is written in TypeScript, and combines the Hindi word “bhai” with English words like “hi” and “bye”. Programs must start with “hi bhai” and end with “bye bhai”. Variables are declared with “bhai ye hai”. The language’s source is on bhailang.js.org, and a playground lets users experiment.

Peregrine

Peregrine is a Python‑like, compiled language with C‑style execution, designed by Ethan and friends as a fast alternative to Python and a simple replacement for C. Its goals are rapid writing, ease of use, low memory footprint, fast compilation, and high compatibility. Features include if/else/match, type interfaces, Ccode interoperability, and inline assembly.

Flix

Flix, developed at the University of Aarhus, belongs to the AI language family. It supports imperative, logic, and functional styles, offering pattern matching, higher‑order functions, algebraic data types, tail‑call elimination, parametric polymorphism, extensible records, and channel‑based concurrency. Its design principles emphasize compile‑time‑only errors, a closed‑world assumption, everything as an expression, and separation of pure and impure code.

Skip

Skip, created by former FAIR engineer Julien Verlaugt and a team of veterans from Hack, ActionScript, Flow, Prettier, Relay, C#, HHVM, and React Native, focuses on reactive invalidation, efficient predictable garbage collection, and developer‑friendly tooling such as incremental type checking, syntax hints, typo detection, and code formatting.

PolyCoder

PolyCoder is an open‑source code‑generation model released by Carnegie Mellon researchers. Trained on 12 popular languages (C, C#, C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, TypeScript) using GPT‑2, it excels at generating C code and aims to reduce developer effort while addressing accessibility concerns of large proprietary models.