Abrase is a rust-like programming language with algebraic effects, no GC and leak-free by design. Source compiles to Polka bytecode and runs on the Myriad runtime — a small computation core that embeds in any Rust application, or in the browser via WebAssembly.

Try it in the playground — examples are little tutorials, ordered from recursion to nested effect handlers.

Why did I make it? - It is faster than CPython, with better control of hardware than JS and Lua, independent of or embeded to web, simpler than Rust yet proved efficient language features, aesthetic, old-school, and is made for LLM collaboration. Is this good enough?

Source on GitHub, design notes in the wiki.

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Medium: Programming Language.

Date: Jun, 2026