/caramel

:candy: a functional language for building type-safe, scalable, and maintainable applications

Primary LanguageOCamlApache License 2.0Apache-2.0

🍬 Caramel

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Caramel is a functional language for building type-safe, scalable, and maintainable applications.

Caramel leverages:

  • the OCaml compiler, to provide you with a pragmatic type system and industrial-strength type safety.

  • the Erlang VM, known for running low-latency, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems used in a wide range of industries.

Learn more at caramel.run

Feature Highlights

  • Excellent type inference, so you never need to annotate your code
  • Zero-cost type-safe interop with most existing Erlang and Elixir code
  • Has a reviewed standard library included
  • Supports sources in OCaml (and soon Reason syntax too)
  • Ships a single executable (caramel)
  • Has a built-in formatter (caramel fmt)

Install

You can download the latest Caramel release from the releases page.