We proudly present the most radical yet most organic rethink in the nature of programming languages in decades.
Protium is a full-featured ultra-high-level general-purpose scripting language, suitable for development across a wide variety of domains, including web design, robotics, and games.
Protium is multi-lingual: programmers are able to instruct a computer in their own native language, and are able share their work with other people without loss of expressivity or meaning. There are 20 non-English dialects of Protium in stages of readiness.
Protium shatters the English-language hegemony in programming languages, empowering people previously denied access to IT due to linguistic barriers.
Protium addresses the known world demand for a high level, powerful, simple, low cost, extremely flexible and efficient programming language. It has been designed to remove the barriers that most people face when they sit down to start to program. Also, Protium provides these advantages in a dialect from any spoken language.
Existing programming languages are difficult to learn. The vast majority are English-based and written in a form derived from mathematical notation. Code written by one person is difficult for another to understand.
Protium, by contrast, is easy to learn. The challenges for non-English speakers are ameliorated by the availability of instruction-set dialects. Dialects are available in a number of human languages, and adding another dialect is usually achievable within six to eight months. The Protium syntax is easy to read and the intent of another’s code is more obvious.
Protium's inter-translatability is based on the theory of the Natural Semantics Metalanguage, and draws on the natural problem-solving expressions that every culture has enshrined in their language. It matches this with ideas from the various general purpose programming systems that have been overwhelmed in the past by the bare-bones reductive approach of algorithmically derived languages. This approach to communication of problems draws on the great heritage started by Wilkins and Leibniz in the time of the enlightenment, and which underlies so much of scientific and cultural discourse today.