Release 10 of the Epoch programming language project is now available! Downloads are freely available for the installer and source snapshot.

For those not familiar with the project, Epoch is a programming language designed to be a pragmatic, efficient, and robust platform for developing real world software and games. Our intention is to make programming more powerful, more efficient, more easily parallelizable, and more enjoyable. You can read up on the full project on the introduction and philosophy pages of our project wiki. Plenty of additional goodies are on the main project site so feel free to poke around.


R10 features a completely rewritten toolchain, including a new dynamic parsing system, a new compiler, a new virtual machine, and a new, more capable standard library. Please note that this is a technology preview release and is not intended to be feature-complete for real applications yet; chances are there's plenty of stuff missing that would be needed for any serious usage.

However, please don't let that discourage you from downloading R10 and playing around. We want to get Epoch in front of real programmers as early as possible and gather your feedback, suggestions, and bug reports - so hammer on it, break it, and let me know how things go!

Good to see. I personally find example code more interesting looking at a new language than some of the other content.