Chester

Welcome to the Chester Programming Language documentation! Chester is a modern, expressive language designed to combine the best features of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms.

This programming language is under active development and not ready for use. Many important features are not implemented yet, including some described in this documentation.

What is Chester?

Chester is a statically-typed language that aims to provide a balance between expressiveness and safety. It draws inspiration from languages like Scala, Haskell, and Rust, while introducing its own unique features.

Some key characteristics of Chester include:

• Strong type system with type inference
• Support for both functional and object-oriented programming styles
• Pattern matching and algebraic data types
• Effect system for managing side effects
• Unicode support, allowing for expressive identifiers

A Glimpse of Chester

Let’s take a look at a simple Chester program to get a feel for the language:

module 😿😿;

def me: String = "インターネット・エンジェル";