Noop

Noop (/ˈnoʊ.ɒp/, like no-op) was a project by Google engineers Alex Eagle and Christian Gruber aiming to develop a new programming language. Noop attempted to blend the best features of "old" and "new" languages, while syntactically encouraging well accepted programming best-practices. Noop was initially targeted to run on the Java Virtual Machine.^[1]

Noop progressed past its initial proposals into a limited interpreter, but according to posts by the project owners in 2010 and 2013, they no longer intended to pursue the language any further.^[2] Among the reasons cited for discontinuing work on the language was the initial release of Kotlin, which achieves many of the language goals of Noop.^{[3][permanent dead link]} The Noop language can be executed as an interpreted language, as a compiled language, or as Java code.^[4]