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8.9 | 2.3 | |
over 1 year ago | 12 months 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.
boba
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AG unification is the solution for type inference with scientific units
I've done a small implementation, used in type inference, in my language Boba. And you are correct, I used the linear equation solving method.
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November 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
The vast majority of October's improvements on Boba were type system and runtime bug fixes. In particular, the effect handler/delimited continuation semantics were hopelessly busted beyond a few simple examples I'd fixated on.
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October 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
September was another productive month for Boba, which is starting to get more 'quality of life' improvements rather than broad new features. That doesn't make the work less important: one of the bug fixes to the type inference engine last month caught a previously unseen bug in the core Boba libraries!
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Unit Type System
Also worth checking out is Adam Gundry's work on type inference for UoM types. Or, if you want an example implementation of the Abelian unification used in standard type inference extended with UoM types, you can reference my implementation, based on solving linear equations.
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September 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
August was a surprisingly productive month for the Boba compiler. A few highlights:
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August 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
The next large feature for Boba (a general-purpose concatenative language) is language integrated property tests.
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Soft-launch Boba: a statically-typed concatenative programming language
That's a good question! I wrote up some of my thoughts on the benefits of Go as a backend, but there's also a historical component here. The first backend I was experimenting with was compile-to-C plus a C-based runtime. Go was closer to C than C# for what I needed at the time and I thought had a nicer concurrency story as a backend.
What are some alternatives?
Pipefish - Source code for the Pipefish programming language
Forscape - Scientific computing language
Charm-MacOS - MacOS executable for Charm
wort - A core concatenative programming language with variables and first-rank polymorphic type inference
ShnooTalk - ShnooTalk is a new programming language
xvm - Ecstasy and XVM
tokay - Tokay is a programming language designed for ad-hoc parsing, inspired by awk.
awesome-low-level-programming-languages - A curated list of low level programming languages (i.e. suitable for OS and game programming)
tailspin-v0 - A programming language with extreme data-pattern matching and data-declarative syntax, hopefully different enough to be interesting
mlscript - The MLscript programming language. Functional and object-oriented; structurally typed and sound; with powerful type inference. Soon to have full interop with TypeScript!