boba
A general purpose statically-typed concatenative programming language. (by glossopoeia)
clauf
A C interpreter developed live on YouTube (by foonathan)
| boba | clauf | |
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| 9 | 5 | |
| 48 | 40 | |
| - | - | |
| 2.3 | 10.0 | |
| about 1 year ago | about 1 year ago | |
| F# | C++ | |
| MIT License | Boost Software License 1.0 |
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boba
Posts with mentions or reviews of boba.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
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.
clauf
Posts with mentions or reviews of clauf.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-10.
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dont want online ones
Want to see your mind blown? Check out cling, a (sort of) C and C++ interpreter (it's a REPL). Or the work in progress, live-developed clauf, a real C interpreter.
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Chibicc – A Small C Compiler
I'm currently writing an interpreter for C, I plan on adding a JIT at some point as well: https://github.com/foonathan/clauf
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October 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I've continued working on developing my C interpreter: https://github.com/foonathan/clauf
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September 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I've been working on a generic bytecode interpreter the last couple of months. It reached a point where I needed to test it in a real compiler, so I've started writing a C interpreter.
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C++ Show and Tell - September 2022
Source code is available here: https://github.com/foonathan/clauf
What are some alternatives?
When comparing boba and clauf you can also consider the following projects:
Forscape - Scientific computing language
frobtads - Linux and macOS development tools and text-mode interpreter for TADS adventure games.
wort - A core concatenative programming language with variables and first-rank polymorphic type inference
Dependencies - A rewrite of the old legacy software "depends.exe" in C# for Windows devs to troubleshoot dll load dependencies issues.
butter - A tasty language for building efficient software. WIP
hindley-milner - simply typed lambda calculus with hindley-milner type inference
awesome-low-level-programming-languages - A curated list of low level programming languages (i.e. suitable for OS and game programming)
tsmp
xvm - Ecstasy and XVM
astatine - Astatine is a is a mid-level, statically typed, procedural programming language with some functional components.
ShnooTalk - ShnooTalk is a new programming language
code-style-agnostic-search - Coding Style -agnostic (and more) search for C++