Languages

Nock is Turing-complete, but as you’ve probably come to realize, it’s not exactly a “programming” language: it’s too abstruse and economical to be used directly for most programming tasks. Instead, Nock is best thought of as a compilation target for higher-level languages.

At the current time, the high-level languages under most active development that target Nock are Hoon and Jock. There is also an Urwasm Nock compatibility layer for executing WebAssembly code on a Nock runtime.

• Hoon is a mature systems programming language with much syntax and flexibility.

• Jock is a scripting language designed as a more developer-friendly alternative to Hoon.

There have also been a few experimental compilers built to play with language concepts:

• Hick by ~tacryt-socryp, a Lisp-like Hoon

• Loon by ~fodwyt-ragful, a Lisp

• North by ~lagrev-nocfep, a Forth interpreter

• Trinitite by ~lagrev-nocfep (not a language, an OS)