About Asylum

Asylum is a mid-level programming language that is designed to be used from everything from embedded systems’ kernels to general application development. Mid-level means that the language is not particularly close or abstract from the underlying computer’s hardware. Here is a list of a few languages, sorted from lower level to higher level:

• Assembly

• C/C++

• Asylum

• Rust

• C#/Java

• Python

As you can see, Asylum is close to Rust when it comes to dealing with more low-level aspects of development. Do not fear a low level language for the sake of it being potentially harder: while this can be the case, Asylum wishes to change this by introducing features of the higher-level languages without removing the ability to do low lovel operations as well.

Inspiration

Asylum takes inspiration from various languages. As you may have noticed, the syntax for the most part is a combination of Rust and C#, and has some of their features as well. C#, Rust, C++, and Python were the main contributing factors to how this language was designed. From C, the low-level pointer math, and from Python, the ability for a program to look like a simplistic script.