Cangjie Programming Language overview
This article contains a quick overview of the new programming language created by Huawei. It had limited availability even the year before, and by now they already provide download bundles for Windows, Linux and Darwin on their web-site.
We'll walk briefly through downloading, running the compiler - and then browse various language features, comparing them with other popular industrial languages. If you have experience with languages like Java and Go (and to lesser extent C++) you'll feel it somewhat familiar - and really the language doesn't try to surprise user with some brain-blowing innovations - seemingly the aim was to provide natively-compiled language to which Java and C# programmers can easily migrate.
There were talks and rumors that the language will be using hieroglyphs - or that it is dedicated to usage with AI - of these both you'll see nothing in this article. Code is written with typical English keywords and AI-integration, if present, is not on the language level itself.
So the web-site provides bundles for downloading (I picked Linux - most typical for backend programmer) - but also here are useful links: Documentatation and Playground - I will browse the first when talking of the language - and use either local installation or playground to figure out and demonstrate the syntax etc.
