Noop Explained

Noop
Designer:	Alex Eagle, Christian Gruber
Typing:	static
License:	Apache License 2.0

Noop (like no-op) was a project by Google engineers Alex Eagle and Christian Gruber aiming to develop a new programming language. Noop attempted to blend the best features of "old" and "new" languages, while syntactically encouraging well accepted programming best-practices. Noop was initially targeted to run on the Java Virtual Machine.^[1]

Noop progressed past its initial proposals into a limited interpreter, but according to the project owners they no longer intend to pursue the language any further.^[2] Among the reasons cited for discontinuing work on the language was the initial release of Kotlin, which achieves many of the language goals of Noop.^[3] The Noop language can be executed as an interpreted language, as a compiled language, or as Java code.^[4]

Creation

The Noop language was created by Google. It was presented during the 2009 edition of the JVM Language Summit held in Santa Clara, California from September 16 to 18, 2009.^[5]

Examples

Hello world in Noopimport noop.Application;import noop.Console;

class HelloWorld(Console console) implements Application

External links

• H-Online article about Noop
• Article about Noop by The Register
• Article about Noop by ADT Magazine

Notes and References

1. Web site: Noop - project hosting on Google Code. https://web.archive.org/web/20150321123844/https://code.google.com/p/noop/. 2015-03-21. 2015-03-17. bot: unknown.
2. Web site: Noop - Is this project dead?.
3. Web site: Kotlin 1.0 released and I'm excited.
4. Web site: Google Develops 'Noop' Language. 2016-04-09.
5. Web site: Noop: Google's Language for the JVM. InfoWorld. 2016-04-09.