4l
lisp like looking language (by marekmaskarinec)
tailspin-v0
A programming language with extreme data-pattern matching and data-declarative syntax, hopefully different enough to be interesting (by tobega)
4l | tailspin-v0 | |
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1 | 16 | |
0 | 32 | |
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6.6 | 7.5 | |
almost 3 years ago | 3 months ago | |
C | Java | |
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | MIT License |
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4l
Posts with mentions or reviews of 4l.
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June 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
This month I started working on my first language called 4l. Since it is a lisp dialect, it is very easy to parse, so I didn't need to use any kind of parser generator.
tailspin-v0
Posts with mentions or reviews of tailspin-v0.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.
- What languages have you learnt with AoC and now you love...or ended as "meh"?
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Advent of Code 2023 in your language
I eventually tend to do all days in Tailspin. The ones I have done so far are in directories ending in "tt" (the others are in Pyret, just to get a feel for it) https://github.com/tobega/aoc2023/tree/main
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I have great difficulties
As a general tip, it is often helpful to first try to think of how you would like to represent the data in your program. Then you need to parse the data into that structure. I'd recommend you to look at a PEG-parser, for example. Or if you like, look at my Tailspin programming language which has a very visual parser syntax and also very visual ways of creating data structures (if that should happen to be your mental affinity). Look at my day1 for example. Or if you're more mathematical, maybe a functional language (I also did day1 in Pyret)
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An idea for a language focused around RxJs
My Tailspin language is based on processing streams of values, you might want to look at it https://github.com/tobega/tailspin-v0
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[2022 Day 7] Solved in three different styles
Many people had trouble with the day 7 problem. Paradoxically, good developers probably had more trouble. Here some of the difficulties are explained and implementations are provided in imperative, functional and OO styles, written in the Tailspin programming language.
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What codebases have the best or most educational unit/integration tests when implementing a programming language?
I test almost entirely from my language, that way the tests are independent of the implementation. Currently the tests are implemented in java because that fits the interpreter implementation https://github.com/tobega/tailspin-v0/tree/master/test/tailspin/samples
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August 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
Finished off the implementation of typed and offset array indices in Tailspin
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March 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I ended up enabling left recursion in Tailspin's composer (parser) syntax. Much cleaner calculator example now.
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Diamonds in the Rough : An Honest Trial for any Language
I think it's possible that Tailspin might be suitable for you.
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Introducing Skiff, a gradually typed functional language written in Rust
I think gradual typing is definitely something worth exploring more. I thought it was a shame when Dart abandoned that path. Have you seen Shen ? I guess my small offering, Tailspin, is currently evolving to gradual typing as well.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing 4l and tailspin-v0 you can also consider the following projects:
The-Spiral-Language - Functional language with intensional polymorphism and first-class staging.
Argon - Argon programming language
bluebird - A work-in-progess programming language modeled after Ada and C++
never - Never: statically typed, embeddable functional programming language.
firefly-boot - Bootstrap compiler for Firefly
boba - A general purpose statically-typed concatenative programming language.
xvm - Ecstasy and XVM
TablaM - The practical relational programing language for data-oriented applications
butter - A tasty language for building efficient software. WIP
Lambda-RAM-Compiler
Odin - Odin Programming Language