Released in 2023, Misty is a dynamic, general-purpose, transitional, actor language created by Douglas Crockford.
The language has a gentle syntax and advanced features, such as capability security and lambdas with lexical scoping.
The language is strict in its use of spaces and indentation. The idea is that underspecified code spacing and formatting lead to incompatible conventions of style, some promoting bug formation, and all promoting time-wasting arguments and incompatibilities. For this reason, Misty allows only one convention, which is strictly enforced, allowing programmers to focus their attention on other matters.
Misty is also strict about whitespace. Its whitespace rules avoid the need for and debate over coding standards.
Misty strives for purity but does not achieve it. As a transitional language, mutation and side effects are tolerated, but not encouraged. Mutation is allowed only in the set statement. The word set is required in the statement. This allows for using the = (equal sign) correctly as the equality operator. The return statement is required in functions, and falling through is not allowed. When calling a function only for its side effects, the call statement must be used. This is quite different from conventional languages, in which syntax is optimized for mutation and side effects.
The Misty programming language is in the public domain.
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A programmer and author, Douglas Crockford has played a lead role in several computer or tech projects that are familiar to most people, such as JSON, Atari, JavaScript, and others. He also created the Misty programming language, and many of these other projects are discussed on his site, which also hosts an introduction, documentation, and other information about the Misty programming language. Links to other online resources are also published on the site.
https://www.crockford.com/
The official website for the Misty programming language, created by Douglas Crockford, and first released in 2023, features an introduction to the language and information about its types, operators, statements, functions, patterns, intrinsic constants and functions, actors, time, fit, math, bits, JSON, and security, as well as the Misty source code, which is in the public domain. A Misty Parse Demo is also available, and the Misty parse tree is included.
http://mistysystem.com/
Silver Key Tech is a group of technologists involved in software development. Its site includes information on a variety of tech topics, including JavaScript and various programming languages, including Misty. Its section on the Misty programming language includes a brief description of the language as a dynamic, general-purpose, transitional, actor language with a gentle syntax intended to benefit those who are trying to learn to program via the Misty language.
https://www.silverkeytech.com/blog/p/silverkey-monitor/misty-programming-language
