### First at all! Special thanks go to my wonderful girlfriend Sabine, my friends [Armin](https://m2m.pm/){:class="ext"} and [Ole](https://schizzoteam.org/){:class="ext"}, who motivated me over the past month to implement this. Cheers! Markus, I miss YOU, R.I.P!
We're excited to announce the release of Fun version 0.37.62, the latest iteration of our experimental programming language that prioritizes simplicity, consistency, and most importantly — joy in coding.
[Link to Hackernews post](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46787331){:class="ext"}.
### What's Fun All About?
Fun is a highly strict yet highly simple programming language that draws inspiration from Bash, C, Lua, PHP, Python, and Rust. If you love Python's clean syntax but want something with stricter rules and built-in type safety, Fun might be worth exploring. It's dynamically typed with optional static typing, written in C (C99) and Fun itself, and designed to be small, embeddable, and hackable. More on the [about](https://fun-lang.xyz/about/) page.
Please note: Fun is an experimental language and should be treated as such. While Fun works, it has many known and unknown bugs. We will not declare Fun as stable until we reach the 1.0 release. This is a project born out of curiosity and passion for elegant code, not production readiness - at least not yet.
- Rich standard library with modules for cryptography (MD5, SHA1/256/384/512, CRC32), encoding (Base64, hex), JSON, XML, INI, regular expressions (PCRE2), datetime utilities, and more
- Optional extensions for cURL, SQLite/libSQL, PC/SC smart cards, and Tk GUI toolkit
- Bounds-checked operations to prevent common errors
- Higher-order functions: map, filter, reduce for functional programming
- Multiple return values from functions
- Comprehensive built-ins for common tasks
### The Community: Fun Unites Nerds
Fun isn't about being the fastest or most feature-rich language — it's about sharing the joy of coding. We welcome contributors who are:
- Respectful
- Curious
- Creative
A language that feels like home for developers who love minimal, elegant tools, believe consistency is freedom, and want to write code that looks good and feels good.
### Want to Participate?
Everybody is welcome to participate! However, before you can get started, you need to contact me at [hanez@fun-lang.org](mailto:hanez@fun-lang.org){:class="mail"} to request an account on our Git server.
Important: Fun is not developed on third-party Git servers like GitHub or GitLab. All Fun infrastructure is self-hosted at git.xw3.org. This keeps us independent and aligned with the hacker spirit of the project - we control our tools, our code, and our community.
The examples directory contains demonstrations of most Fun features, from basic "Hello, World!" to threading, networking, classes, and more. The lib directory includes modules written in Fun itself - and in the future, most enhancements will be written in Fun rather than C.
Documentation is a work in progress as we continue debugging, fixing bugs, and evolving the language. Complete API documentation will follow in future releases. Version 0.37.62 represents substantial progress, but remember, this is an experiment, and stability won't be declared until we reach 1.0.
Fun may not change the world, but it aims to make programming a little more fun. We're on a journey, and we'd love to have you along for the ride - bugs and all.
