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: