Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust

  • Posted 23 hours ago by xodn348
  • 202 points
https://github.com/xodn348/han
A few weeks ago I saw a post about someone converting an entire C++ codebase to Rust using AI in under two weeks.

That inspired me — if AI can rewrite a whole language stack that fast, I wanted to try building a programming language from scratch with AI assistance.

I've also been noticing growing global interest in Korean language and culture, and I wondered: what would a programming language look like if every keyword was in Hangul (the Korean writing system)?

Han is the result. It's a statically-typed language written in Rust with a full compiler pipeline (lexer → parser → AST → interpreter + LLVM IR codegen).

It supports arrays, structs with impl blocks, closures, pattern matching, try/catch, file I/O, module imports, a REPL, and a basic LSP server.

This is a side project, not a "you should use this instead of Python" pitch. Feedback on language design, compiler architecture, or the Korean keyword choices is very welcome.

https://github.com/xodn348/han

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