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200 | 3,057 | |
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7.0 | 9.8 | |
6 months ago | 3 days ago | |
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mech
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Reactive Programming Without Functions
There's also https://github.com/mech-lang/mech which is a sort of descendant of Eve https://witheve.com/ . That too seems to be getting close to hiatus. It's a bit of a shame since it seems like quite a nice paradigm for some stuff like GUIs, interactive stuff, and discrete event simulation, but I suppose the paradigm is both a bit obscure and different enough from everything else that it becomes a "boil the ocean" situation where one or a few people try and hack away but aren't really able to get much traction and eventually tired themselves out.
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What features would you want in a new programming language?
You should take a look at the language Iām developing, Mech: https://github.com/mech-lang/mech
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How do you think of concurrency and parallelism and what would your dream syntax be for it?
I'm working on a language called Mech (github.com/mech-lang/mech) that is semantically parallel and asynchronous first. You can write something like this:
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Mech Lang Spring Update: On the Road Toward Beta!
Hi everyone. I've posted here a couple times about my language Mech, which you can find here. I've just put together an update which I hope this community will find interesting!
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Frustration: One Year with R
> HN readers - do you have an "up and coming" language that you think has better structured the fundamentals from R, that you hope will someday have enough capabilities you can use it instead of R?
Hope is the operative word here!
I'm writing a language to compete in this area. It's called Mech and I'll be releasing the first beta in October. You can think of it like Matlab + Excel. It's very fast, has default-parallel semantics for operators and functions, and supports full interactive coding with no startup/compilation latency issues. It's meant for robots, but I've also designed it to be a better Matlab, and I think it should take on R handily. Fair warning, it's public alpha now so error messages are sparse and the happy path is narrow.
https://github.com/mech-lang/mech
koka
- Koka v3 Released
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Koka: A fast functional programming language with algebraic effects
This post by the Koka-author is an update about what's currently being worked on: https://github.com/koka-lang/koka/discussions/339
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Not Use Path Based Imports
Some programming language like JS, use path-based imports, that's not good for making a stabel API.
See https://api-extractor.com/pages/setup/configure_rollup/#:~:text=(The%20API%20Extractor,with%20that%20effort.)
And https://github.com/koka-lang/koka/issues/31#issuecomment-1482200826
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What features would you want in a new programming language?
It also offers a great Inversion of Control mechanism where everything is customisable, and, unlike Capability Objects, AESs also offer compatibility with type inference (you can pass functions doing IO to map, and it Just Works(TM)) and first-class control over stack frames (because really a continuation function is just some stack frames, which you can manually move to the heap if you want a closure; which means async is an effect!). It also is composable in ways Monads are not.
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What are you doing about async programming models? Best? Worst? Strengths? Weaknesses?
Koka and other languages implementing Algebraic Effect Systems make everything a user-defined case of coroutines: async is just another effect/Monadic type. Zig does something similar by having first class stack frames, making all function calls possibly asynchronous.
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Letlang, a programming language targetting Rust - Road to v0.1
Super interesting, there is a proposal to add this to JavaScript and several languages that use this, unison, koka & eff. I had no idea this was even a thing!
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Let's collect relatively new research programming languages in this thread
Koka, already cited in this thread, early 2010s. Koka's first claim to fame was a usable effect system (at the type were, basically, effect systems were not usable in practice; in fact few languages have managed to do as well as Koka since). Now its author is working on cool implementation strategies for functional languages as well.
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[Offer] Tutoring for Computer Science / Programming / Software Engineering topics
I'm a software engineer with 3 years of professional experience. I worked for 2 years at Microsoft on Azure Compute and now work at Google, working on improving Google search. I am the sole maintainer of the popular open-source library microlens with 80k downloads. I've also contributed to the Koka programming language developed at Microsoft Research.
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Implementing the Perceus reference counting GC
By implementing all of those optimizations in the Koka programming language, they achieved GC overhead much less and execution time faster than the other languages including OCaml, Haskell, and even C++ in several algorithms and data structures that frequently keep common sub-structures of them, such as red-black trees. For more information, see the latest version of the paper.
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What are some alternatives?
cheatsheets - Posit Cheat Sheets - Can also be found at https://posit.co/resources/cheatsheets/.
effekt - A research language with effect handlers and lightweight effect polymorphism
Frustration-One-Year-With-R - An extremely long review of R.
rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
ggplot2-book - ggplot2: elegant graphics for data analysis
wasm-effect-handlers - WebAssembly specification, reference interpreter, and test suite with effect handlers extension.
COVID-19 - Plots and analysis relating to the pandemic
FStar - A Proof-oriented Programming Language
tidyr - Tidy Messy Data
dafny - Dafny is a verification-aware programming language
forcats - šššš: tools for working with categorical variables (factors)
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.