# nature-lang/nature

The Nature Programming Language

Repository: https://github.com/nature-lang/nature
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/nature
Homepage: https://nature-lang.org
Language: C
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: language, nature, compiler, programming-language, hacktoberfest, c, lang
Last push: 2026-08-26T20:10:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 88/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 67, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2278, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 222, "gap_med": 16, "n_releases_24m": 6}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2254, forks 64 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:31.233557+00:00)

## What it is
Nature is a general-purpose system programming language with its own compiler written in pure C, compiling directly to machine code without LLVM. It offers a strong type system, built-in concurrency primitives (go/future/channel/select), a high-performance GC, shared-stack coroutines, and C FFI with zero-overhead calls.

## Use cases
- write high-performance system software in a new language
- build cross-platform command line tools
- learn how compilers and language runtimes work
- develop server applications and API services with built-in coroutines
- call C libraries with zero-overhead FFI
- cross-compile binaries for linux, macos, and windows

## When to choose
- you want a concise, Go-like systems language with a GC and coroutines
- you need fast compilation and simple static deployment without LLVM
- you want to experiment with an early-stage language and contribute to its toolchain

## When to avoid
- you need a battle-tested language for large-scale production systems
- you require mature ecosystems, extensive libraries, or WASM support
- you need guaranteed long-term language stability before version 1.0

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: experimental
- function: programming-language, compiler, concurrency, cli, package-manager, testing
- domain: programming-languages, compilers, developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: windows, cli, cpp
- tags: system-programming, garbage-collection, coroutines, no-llvm, cross-compilation, c-ffi, musl, lsp, static-linking, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- nature-lang/nature (main) score 88

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:31.233557+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:19:37.555910+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nature-lang/nature (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:31.233557+00:00, sha 18dbe9c1e28f)
  - homepage: https://nature-lang.org (fetched 2026-08-29T10:23:48.943977+00:00, sha 55d957aa536c)
  - site_page: https://nature-lang.org/docs/contribute (fetched 2026-08-29T10:23:48.991264+00:00, sha 101928ba0e55)
  - site_page: https://nature-lang.org/docs/get-started (fetched 2026-08-29T10:23:49.023349+00:00, sha 368baf9ad0b5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.