Huawei programming language to make official debut at HDC 2024

Huawei has been working on its self-developed programming language for a long while and now it seems ready to debut at the HDC 2024 event. Recent news says the company will officially unveil the HarmonyOS Cangjie language today (June 21).

Weibo news account @SinaTechnology reports that Huawei will release its self-developed programming language “Cangjie” at the HDC 2024. The company has accomplished the last link of HarmonyOS ecosystem and is ready to showcase on the stage.

This would be the first time Huawei will bring its programming language to consumers. During the HarmonyOS NEXT developer preview event in January, the OEM hinted at this new change. Although things may finally become official today.

Cangjie Programming Language: Previous Details

Huawei applied for the ‘Cangjie’ trademark in 2020. Since then, the firm has been putting efforts to bring in an efficient language for its software and application developers.

‘Cangjie’ refers to the inventor of Chinese characters. With a legendary name, Huawei said that the company will soon launch a new research programming language for both HarmonyOS and Euler operating systems for app development.

In 2022, Huawei initiated the trial registration of its programming language, aiming to unveil it in the second half of the year. But hereafter, this matter never came into the news.

Now the ‘Cangjie’ language is said to be used in the HarmonyOS NEXT for the first time. Huawei has also renamed one of its Weibo accounts ‘Programming Language Lab’ to ‘Cangjie Programming Language’. Other than this, the company seems to have a ‘Cangjie Language Assistant’ based on HarmonyOS native app efficient development.

Huawei will likely share details on this matter at the HDC 2024 event alongside launching HarmonyOS NEXT beta and some other highly efficient products.

Pangu 5.0 model and Celia ‘Super Assistant’ are also on the list. The Chinese phone maker will unveil most of the software-related products today while introducing some useful Cloud strategies and AI-based plans for industrial development in the other two days (June 22-23).

HarmonyOS NEXT: Independent OS

Even though HarmonyOS is Huawei’s self-developed OS, it has been relying on Android AOSP and Linux components so far. But with the ‘NEXT’ version, the company has switched to a ‘true and independent OS’ by using self-developed elements.

At the first 2024 HarmonyOS NEXT event, Huawei shared a list of components used for the new software system. It counts the Pangu AI model, MindSpore AI Framework, HarmonyOS design, Harmony kernel, and more.

Today the company will unveil more details regarding the new software. All we need is to wait for a few more hours.