Common (CL) · early preview
Hello, friend!
Code that reads like English. Common (CL) is a language for the web with no symbols to memorize. You write what you mean, and the server turns it into a page.
Why Common (CL)?
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Plain English
If you can read it, you can write it. No braces, no semicolons.
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Server-side
Pages are built on the server, like PHP. Visitors only ever receive plain HTML.
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Tiny
One small program written in C runs everything. No build step, no packages.
See it run
You write
<cl>
set fruits to "apple", "banana", "cherry"
show "We have [count of fruits] fruits."
for each fruit in fruits
show "<li>[fruit]</li>"
end
</cl>The visitor sees
We have 3 fruits.
- apple
- banana
- cherry
By the numbers
17
commands
3400
lines of C
0
required dependencies
0
build steps
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"I read the code once and understood all of it."
A future Common developer