boba
A general purpose statically-typed concatenative programming language. (by glossopoeia)
ShnooTalk
ShnooTalk is a new programming language (by RainingComputers)
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boba
Posts with mentions or reviews of boba.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-03.
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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.
ShnooTalk
Posts with mentions or reviews of ShnooTalk.
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- Show HN: ShnooTalk – A new programming language (unrelated to Smalltalk)
- I created a programming language
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The ShnooTalk programming language
Thanks! The semantic analyzer can query the builder to check if a function/type exists, find functions matching a particular signature, retrieve names of all fields given a struct others. You can find the "API" for such operations here.
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August 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I have started working on a standard library for my language called ShnooTalk. ShnooTalk is a statically typed compiled language that uses LLVM as the backend. ShnooTalk has its own custom IR definition that is than translated to LLVM IR.
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March 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
GitHub: https://github.com/RainingComputers/ShnooTalk
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October 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I have been working on my programing language called ShnooTalk.
What are some alternatives?
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