Ceylon

programming language

Created Year: 2011
Developed by: Red Hat • Gavin King
Operating systems: cross-platform
Implemented in: Java
Named after: Sri Lanka
Aliases: Eclipse Ceylon
File extensions: ceylon

Wikidata: Q93482

Influenced by: Java • Lisp • ML • Scala • Smalltalk

Programming paradigms: functional programming • multi-paradigm programming • object-oriented programming • imperative programming

Language types: functional programming language • multi-paradigm programming language • object-based language • imperative programming language • JVM language

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Hello World in Ceylon

shared void hello() {
    print("Hello World");
}
Source: github.com/leachim6/hello-world

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Latest data update: 2026-07-15