Foray
firefly-boot
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9 | 48 | |
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3.0 | 9.8 | |
7 months ago | 6 days ago | |
Zig | JavaScript | |
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Foray
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March 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I made some progress on my concatenative toy language Foray. There's a basic repl, basic error handling (still not good though), and some basic builtin operators, and some basic docs in the repo.
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February 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I wanted to learn the zig language and I also decided to try making an interpreter for a stack-oriented concatenative language I'm calling Foray, mostly inspired by Min.
firefly-boot
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What's the syntax of lambda expressions in your language?
Firefly, curly braces:
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January 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I'm still working on Firefly, a language with first class capabilities.
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Ask HN: Who Wants to Collaborate?
Since there's no other way for `deleteDirectory` to obtain capabilities than to recieve them as arguments, `deleteDirectory` only has access to the file system.
[1] https://github.com/Ahnfelt/firefly-boot/tree/master/compiler
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Preventing Log4j with Capabilities
> Do you have more to share, like resources about capability-safe languages, or your ongoing work?
I can share an example from the main function of the [self hosting Firefly compiler](https://github.com/Ahnfelt/firefly-boot/tree/master/compiler):
main(system: System): Unit {
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What are some simple but powerful compile-to-JS languages I might not know about, or that you are working on (not Elm, Reason, PureScript, or ClojureScript)?
I'm working on Firefly, which will compile to JS once bootstrapping is complete (almost there).
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June 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
Still working on typechecking Firefly with the help of a friend.
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March 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
Working on the type inference for Firefly. I don't have a lot of free time at the moment, so it's coming along slowly.
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Alternative to monads for enforcing purity?
Firefly uses object capabilities for enforcing purity:
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Generalizing Ruby block syntax in static languages with currying
In Firefly, this is done without macros:
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February 2021 Monthly What Are You Working On
Firefly - self hosting, working on the type inference.
What are some alternatives?
bread - An expression based scripting language
xvm - Ecstasy and XVM
aulang - simple and fast scripting language
konna - A fast functional language based on two level type theory
pika - A WIP little dependently-typed systems language
cubiml-demo - A simple ML-like programming language with subtyping and full type inference.
bluebird - A work-in-progess programming language modeled after Ada and C++
starlight - JS engine in Rust
IntercalScript - The IntercalScript programming language
rumi - The rumi compiler
Matrix - Easy-to-use Scientific Computing library in/for C++ available for Linux and Windows.