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Pronounced “engine”, it’s a high-level programming language for the backend - APIs, MCP servers, and to serve AI purposes like LLM inference. It’s intended to be easily learned and dearly loved; and draws inspiration from many other languages, with some unique modifications here and there.

ngn is composed of a cli (ngn) and a VM runtime (ngnr). When you ngn build main.ngn, a main.mod file is created (bytecode). So, in production, you’d do ngnr run main.mod

What you can expect

A few highlights of ngn:

• concurrency and parallelism
• straight-forward async code via threads and channels
• concise await syntax, with no contagion
• shared, atomic state when needed
• built-in http/s server

Note

I’ve driven the vision for ngn, and put a lot of thinking time into it’s features, naming conventions, and syntax, but AI has written nearly 100% of the code - which I’ve reviewed nearly all of.

Fear? That’s someone else’s problem.