Richard Zulch

A computer language may have all of the purity and elegance in the world, but it can never be better than the platform underneath, or the ecosystem it inhabits.

Libraries have always been important to the viability of a computer language and its ecosystem, but now they are essential. A key strength of NaaN is that it can readily integrate libraries from the NPM registry of over two million packages.

This article introduces NaaN procedures, symbol bindings, and scopes over the course of ten examples.

Concurrency and Preemption One can create concurrent and preemptable programs in NaaN with only minimal design effort. The following sections describe how NaaN achieves this relative to other familiar languages and techniques.

All interesting programming languages provide a good hacking environment and NaaN endeavors to continue this fine tradition.