Re:Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust
by ovciokko on Saturday March 14, 2026 @09:11PM
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Thank you for replying! As a non-English speaker too, I always love to see people trying out new things different from the English mindset. Hangul is a very cool writing system and I'd love to see Han live and evolving.
That said, a few things do lean into Korean specifically:
- Method names are real Korean verbs: .추가() (add), .삭제() (delete), .분리() (split)
- Error messages are in Korean
- The REPL prompt is 한> and exit command is 나가기 (literally "go out")
Good question — it pushed me to think about what makes this more than just s/function/함수/g.