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smalltalk
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March 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
Working on GST my personnal fork of GNU Smalltalk. I've fixed a small issue regarding the object table in 64 bits you can expect to create much more objects without reaching an out of memory. Also I've improved the VM code specialy the way the objects were GCed and initialized so it brings much more flexibility to change the object layout (adding a new field at the VM level for instance) and added a static assert that will warm the developper ;-)
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?
star - An experimental programming language that's made to be powerful, productive, and predictable
xvm - Ecstasy and XVM
Matrix - Easy-to-use Scientific Computing library in/for C++ available for Linux and Windows.
konna - A fast functional language based on two level type theory
starlight - JS engine in Rust
cubiml-demo - A simple ML-like programming language with subtyping and full type inference.
wotpp - A small macro language for producing and manipulating strings.
Lithe-POC - Proof of concept of a functional reactive UI library.
IntercalScript - The IntercalScript programming language
aulang - simple and fast scripting language