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| gox | dmd | |
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| 3 | 146 | |
| 185 | 2,888 | |
| 0.0% | 0.7% | |
| 0.0 | 9.9 | |
| over 4 years ago | about 20 hours ago | |
| Go | D | |
| MIT License | Boost Software License 1.0 |
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gox
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What's the simplest language to implement?
Depending on what you are trying to accomplish by writing "a language", extending an existing language or making a syntactically-different language that compiles to an existing language can be both fast and rewarding. For example, I made https://github.com/8byt/gox in a couple days with no prior language-design experience (gox is to Go as JSX is to Javascript).
- JSX for Go
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GoKart: A static analysis tool for securing Go code
Long ago I hacked together a weekend project with a friend of "JSX for go" that allowed embedding html tags into Go source like people do for react. We were pleasantly surprised how readable and flexible the Go parser source code was, even for the pretty dramatically different syntax we were trying to support.
https://github.com/8byt/gox
dmd
- D2 Playground
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DMD Compiler as a Library: A Call to Arms
Here's the pipeline spitting out the same error as on my macbook did.
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/actions/runs/8023469412/job/219...
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My favourite Git commit (2019)
Not completely on topic (if you read TFA) but my favorite Git commit is by compiler badass and HN frequenter, where he checks in an entire C compiler to the D language repo:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/12507
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27102584
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The C Bounded Model Checker: Criminally Underused
A new generated code alone is 4000 lines long [1]. The actual code added is just 2000 lines, and some are used to pay debts, I mean, to make a proper code generator (which can be alternatively written in a simpler scripting langauge). In any case it is never comparable to the entier C parser proper.
[1] https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/15307/files#diff-3677bcc89...
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OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
D is completely opensource already (https://github.com/dlang/dmd). The "open" of OpenD is just ADR saying that OpenD will be more open to new language features than D has historically been.
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The OpenD Programming Language (fork of D)
The reference compiler, DMD, is open source: https://github.com/dlang/dmd
But they don't accept just any Pull Request or features the community submits, understandably. There's a process called DIP for language improvements: https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/README.md
However, by some accounts, it's really hard to get anything through.
Given D already has so many feature, I find that to be a good thing , to be honest, by not everyone agrees, of course.
- Odin Programming Language
- D Programming Language
What are some alternatives?
Scala Native - Your favorite language gets closer to bare metal.
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
bootBASIC - bootBASIC is a BASIC language in 512 bytes of x86 machine code.
ldc - The LLVM-based D Compiler.
qscm - A tiny bootstrapped Scheme
v - Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io
lbForth - Self-hosting metacompiled Forth, bootstrapping from a few lines of C; targets Linux, Windows, ARM, RISC-V, 68000, PDP-11, asm.js.
dextool - Suite of C/C++ tooling built on LLVM/Clang
minimal-lisp
Odin - Odin Programming Language
jonesforth_arm64_apl - JonesForth ARM64 with APL symbols
llvm-project - The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.