minima
A fast, byte-code interpreted language (by TheRealMichaelWang)
bluebird
A work-in-progess programming language modeled after Ada and C++ (by csb6)
minima | bluebird | |
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14 | 11 | |
46 | 25 | |
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0.0 | 0.0 | |
over 2 years ago | over 1 year ago | |
C | C++ | |
Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
minima
Posts with mentions or reviews of minima.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-01.
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Cannot Resolve a Conflicting Type Error
Currently, I'm trying to migrate a project from MSVC to GCC to target different platforms aside from Windows. Using this makefile, a error: conflicting types for for all the methods defined in builtins.c and builtins.h. I'm using macros to define the functions so I suspect that has something to do with it.
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Trouble reproducing bug
Now to reproduce the bug, you have to run the contents of bug.txt. I ran it in REPL mode to see which specific line failed to execute (it’s the last line). Now inside one of the dependency files(the function sort_terms is where the bug occurred), I added the print statement to sorta approximate where it crashed.
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Trouble Reproducing a Bug
The program that I am working on is an interpreter, Minima, and it’s compiled with MSVC. More specifically I’m working on a symbolic math library in Minima. The executable that crashed can be found here. Download all the files in the example folder with the executable, those mainly consist of the dependencies I was using.
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Compiler Optimizations Without an AST
I did write an AST to expedite the development time since I had initially thought that ASTs were not necessary, especially considering the nature of my languages syntax. However a lot of complications have arisen from trying to implement compiler optimizations without an AST. I was wondering whether there are some low hanging compiler optimizations that don’t require an AST to implement.
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Favorite Language and Why
Minima because I fucking wrote it. It’s OO, functional, supports lambdas and anon functions, and it’s way faster that Python.
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July 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I’ve just finished writing Minima’s inheritance system. You can check out an example here . I’ve been trying to weed out all the bugs and make Minima super stable.
- Minima, an object-oriented scripting lang
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Added inheritance to Minima
Minima now supports single-inheritance via the extend keyword. It resembles something akin to this example.
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Composition vs Inheritance
From my observations, inheritance seems to be highly discourage among the programming community Although inheritance and polymorphism in general is a powerful tool when utilized properly, I’m unsure as to whether the addition of polymorphistic features to a programming language that I’m writing, is a sound idea.
bluebird
Posts with mentions or reviews of bluebird.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-01.
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Asking for opinions on the best way to specify an exclusive range in a for-loop
0 upto n and 0 thru n. I think I saw it in Bluebird first and really liked it.
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Tips for implementing an AST
Instead of the classic visitor pattern, I found it easier to create a class that basically wraps a big switch statement that switches on an enum representing the kind of expression. You pass it an expression, and based on the enum returned by its kind() function you downcast the expression into the subclass you need. The code is here for reference. My AST code is here.
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January 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I am working some again on my Ada-like language bluebird. I am making another attempt to use MLIR as an intermediate IR between the AST and LLVM IR (I made a brief attempt a few months ago just to look into it).
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September 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I fworked some more towards adding pointers on my Ada-like programming language bluebird. I've finished adding pointer types and variables (as well as the operators for dereferencing/getting the address of objects), but I still need to add the ability to dereference and assign.
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July 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I started to experiment with using MLIR to write a high-level IR for my language bluebird, which will hopefully reduce the work of implementing features I want to add such as generics and ranges, as well as allowing me to eventually write some optimizations. I am also considering rewriting my AST as an MLIR dialect, since MLIR provides a bunch of type-checking/error printing/support infrastructure.
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June 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I continued implementing support for references (a restricted form of pointers) in my Ada-like language bluebird. I also am working on adding a cleanup pass between my parser/typechecker to handle stuff like type resolution of literals and constant folding.
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May 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I didn’t add too many new features to my Ada-like language bluebird this month because of lots of projects/school stuff.
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LLVM’s New Pass Manager
Here is a link to my optimizer pass setup for reference. This is just a simple optimization pipeline (I think clang has a setup where optimization stages are re-run multiple times to take advantage of inlining making more optimizations possible).
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March 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I made some more progress on bluebird, my Ada-like language.
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February 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I continued to make progress on the compiler for my Ada-inspired language bluebird. I will have less time to spend on it as classes began earlier last month, but I still hope to continue working on it. Things are getting to the point where adding a new feature isn’t as difficult as it was when doing so often meant writing the supporting code from nothing.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing minima and bluebird you can also consider the following projects:
boring-lang - A very boring programming language
starlight - JS engine in Rust
Ark - ArkScript is a small, fast, functional and scripting language for C++ projects
Cwerg - The best C-like language that can be implemented in 10kLOC.
Freeze-OS - An Operating System that runs on top of an interpreter.
durin - the Dependent Unboxed higher-oRder Intermediate Notation
Yoakke - A collection of libraries for implementing compilers in .NET.
pika - A WIP little dependently-typed systems language
star - An experimental programming language that's made to be powerful, productive, and predictable
Matrix - Easy-to-use Scientific Computing library in/for C++ available for Linux and Windows.