Cherri programming language
Shares rank 105 of 163 programming languages by recommenders
A free language that compiles readable code into Apple Shortcuts, letting people build and automate shortcuts in text instead of the Shortcuts app.
A free language that compiles readable code into Apple Shortcuts, letting people build and automate shortcuts in text instead of the Shortcuts app.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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Why people recommend it
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Readable language compiles to Shortcuts
“Love this approach of compiling a readable language to a platform-specific format.”
Comment from 30 Mar 2026 in “Cherri – programming language that compiles directly to a Apple Shortuct” “without macOS you would have to reverse-engineer Apple signing format yourself”
Comment from 30 Mar 2026 in “Cherri – programming language that compiles directly to a Apple Shortuct”
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See all 163 programming languages, rankedWhat people said
8 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“point it towards Cherri to help with implementation”
“Love this approach of compiling a readable language to a platform-specific format.”
“It feels like with Cherri I'll finally be able to actually do things!”
“having this opens up the LLM assisting path to build shortcuts”
“Cherri has almost every action you can find in the Shortcuts app, easy to use”
“Wonderful project, thank you Cherri!”
“I've just used this extensively to build 200 Shortcuts for my event-based automation app”
“without macOS you would have to reverse-engineer Apple signing format yourself”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.