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grain-lang/grain

The Grain compiler toolchain and CLI. Home of the modern web staple. 🌾 observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/grain-lang/grain · homepage · Reason · LGPL-3.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

88/100

  • Activity 98
  • Release rhythm 69
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 0.0
  • age_days: 3431
  • days_rel: 206
  • days_push: 12
  • n_releases_24m: 11

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

3468 stars · 124 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Grain is a strongly-typed functional programming language that compiles to WebAssembly, together with its compiler toolchain and CLI. It aims to make academic functional language features accessible for web and general-purpose development.

Use cases

  • compile a functional language to webassembly
  • write type-safe web code without runtime type errors
  • learn a modern functional programming language
  • build browser apps that run on wasm
  • run the same language in browser, terminal, and server

When to choose

  • you want a strongly-typed functional language targeting WebAssembly
  • you want to experiment with a new language and help shape its ecosystem
  • you want type inference without annotations and no runtime type errors

When to avoid

  • you need a mature language with a large ecosystem and long-term stability
  • you need non-WebAssembly compilation targets or deep native interop
  • you dislike rapidly changing language features

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

compiler cli wasm programming-language type-system programming-languages compilers web-development wasm browser cli cross-platform webassembly functional-language compiler-toolchain strongly-typed language-compiler functional-programming nodejs

4 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
grain-lang/grainmain88

For agents

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