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8.9 | 9.7 | |
over 1 year ago | 3 days ago | |
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Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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butter
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August 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
Butter has continued in development. Currently working on pretty printer so that I could test out typed ast before working on next stage: mid-level IR and lifetime analysis. It was in hiatus when I was in busy uni stuffs. But now I think I have more time now.
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June 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
Hello! I've been working on Butter programming language and it's starting to get shape. Butter is heavily influenced by Rust and I want it to be concise and high-level as much as possible.
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?
boba - A general purpose statically-typed concatenative programming language.
xvm - Ecstasy and XVM
Pipefish - Source code for the Pipefish programming language
konna - A fast functional language based on two level type theory
Charm-MacOS - MacOS executable for Charm
cubiml-demo - A simple ML-like programming language with subtyping and full type inference.
tokay - Tokay is a programming language designed for ad-hoc parsing, inspired by awk.
starlight - JS engine in Rust
tailspin-v0 - A programming language with extreme data-pattern matching and data-declarative syntax, hopefully different enough to be interesting
IntercalScript - The IntercalScript programming language
ShnooTalk - ShnooTalk is a new programming language
Matrix - Easy-to-use Scientific Computing library in/for C++ available for Linux and Windows.