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empirical-lang
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Code in Database vs. Code in Application
I'm interested in languages experimenting with integrating tables/dataframes and the relational model as native parts of the language
With how much of the code I've written that's been around representing entities and doing CRUD on collections of them it seems a bit wild not to have native "Table" types.
There's an HN user who has a neat language called "Empirical" based on this, and there's an active research language called "Flix" that has this as well. APL/K and other array langs feature a similar concept as I understand it.
https://www.empirical-soft.com/
https://flix.dev/
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Tell HN: Stop Accepting Shitty Interviews
The most used in finance is a few functions in pandas, like merge_asof(). It's pretty industry standard now.
https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.merge_as...
The biggest open-source thing I've ever written is Empirical, a language for time-series analysis.
https://www.empirical-soft.com
I'm also top 1% on Stack Overflow. A lot of companies have found me through there.
https://stackoverflow.com/users/478288/chrisaycock
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Table Oriented Programming (2002)
I started Empirical with the goal of "q like Haskell". The end result went in a radically different direction, but the guiding light has always been to have a statically typed language where tables and queries are a first-class operation.
The source code is publicly available under AGPL with the Commons Clause:
https://github.com/empirical-soft/empirical-lang
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Scripting Languages of the Future
Some of the OP's observations are why I wrote Empirical [1].
- I wanted static types that felt dynamic, which meant being able to infer types from a file as long as the file path can be determined at compile time.
- I wanted Dataframes to be a first-class container since the high-level of abstraction leads to great performance when doing analytics.
Therefore, I created a language with statically typed Dataframes. Empirical can infer a CSV's type at compile time, namely because performs compile-time function evaluation automatically. The result is a language that runs easily in a REPL but can be used for long-running scripts without worrying about common programming errors.
[1] https://www.empirical-soft.com
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APL Compiler Based on Tail (Typed Array Intermediate Language)
I wanted to hit the runtime repeatedly with as little overhead as possible. So VVM has no type look-up, multiple operands per instruction, and a cache-efficient IR. The sum() operand for the above example is invoked directly in a loop almost as fast as hand-written C++.
VVM has its own assembly language [2]. I have blog post that explains some of the design choices [3].
[1] https://github.com/empirical-soft/empirical-lang/tree/master...
[2] https://github.com/empirical-soft/empirical-lang/tree/master...
[3] https://www.empirical-soft.com/2020/09/03/a-tour-of-the-vect...
zx
- Zx 8.0
- Google ZX – A tool for writing better scripts
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Dax – Cross-platform shell for Node.js
TIL about zx! https://github.com/google/zx
This suite of tools feels indispensable. Anything to keep me from having to write/maintain bash scripts that are more than a series of commands.
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The Bun Shell
Great point! According to https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/b433beb016470b87850f3c01..., Bun Shell took inspiration from zx[0], dax[1] and bnx[2]
[0]: https://github.com/google/zx
[1]: https://github.com/dsherret/dax
[2]: https://github.com/wobsoriano/bnx
- Zx: A tool for writing better scritps
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My script to install husky, commitlint and lint-staged with zx
If you want test it, you can run this script withzx :
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YavaScript: Write shell scripts in JavaScript/TS instead of bash
I really love writing with zx. https://github.com/google/zx
We have some folks who have gone wild copy-pasting random fancy bash snippets into various developer helpers scripts. Zx did like 90% of that stuff out of the box, without being a pile of chaotic custom bash.
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Scripting with Go: A Modest Proposal
I ended up using this for my cli scripting needs. https://github.com/google/zx
- And forget about shell scripting in /bin/sh ... I hate to say it, but, this is the middle of 2021 we have react and svelte we need more /etc/shells, we need modern languages all over, we can't do this anymore
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Bash. For me it is "read only". It is too arcane, even for me. I use Perl now.
lol no javascript
What are some alternatives?
passerine - A small extensible programming language designed for concise expression with little code.
shelljs - :shell: Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js
Apache Geode - Apache Geode
execa - Process execution for humans
piccolo - An experimental stackless Lua VM implemented in pure Rust
Commander.js - node.js command-line interfaces made easy
apltail - APL Compiler targeting a typed array intermediate language
TypeScript - TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.
Linq-in-Rust - Language Integrated Query in Rust.
oclif - CLI for generating, building, and releasing oclif CLIs. Built by Salesforce.
smlsharp - SML# compiler
deno - A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.