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Haskell (GHC 9.12)
PureScript (0.15)
Scala (3.8 / 3.3 LTS)
Unison (M5b)
Modern Mainstream
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Eiffel (ECMA-367 / ISO/IEC 25436:2006)
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Rust (1.96 / 2024 edition)
Swift (6.2)
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C (C23)
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Zig (0.16)
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D (2.112)
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Bash (5.3)
C shell (csh 8.2 / tcsh)
Fish (4.0)
Ksh (kSH 93u+)
PowerShell (7.6)
Sh (POSIX.1-2024)
Zsh (5.9)
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Ada (2022 / 2012)
Clojure (1.12)
COBOL (ISO/IEC 1989:2023)
Common Lisp (ANSI X3.226-1994)
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Fortran (2023)
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Prolog (SWI 9.4)
Racket (8.17)
Rocq (9.0)
Scheme (R7RS)
Smalltalk (ANSI Smalltalk)
SPARK (Pro 25)
Tcl (9.0)
Turbo Pascal (7.0)
VBScript (6.0)
Visual Basic 16 (.NET)
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MATLAB (R2026a)
PL/SQL (Oracle)
R (4.5)
SAS (9.4 / Viya)
SQL (ANSI SQL:2023)
Transact-SQL (SQL Server)
Educational and Special
Assembly (x86-64, System V AMD64 ABI)
Scratch (3.0)
Emerging and Specialty
Crystal (1.15)
Dart (3.12)
Elixir (1.20)
Erlang (OTP 29)
Julia (1.12)
Solidity (0.8.x)
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Shells and Automation
The language pages in this group, scored against the dimensions defined in the
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Bash (5.3)
C shell (csh 8.2 / tcsh)
Fish (4.0)
Ksh (kSH 93u+)
PowerShell (7.6)
Sh (POSIX.1-2024)
Zsh (5.9)