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mil		potion
	Project
4	Mentions	2
14	Stars	656
-	Growth	0.3%
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	10 months ago
C	Language	C
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

mil

Posts with mentions or reviews of mil. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-18.

HoangTuan110M: A small, concatenative programming language
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2023
Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've ever built?
33 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Nov 2022

I don't know if this is impactful, but the projecy that reached out to the most people that I can think of is Mil[0]. It is a small stack-based language that I wrote in C as a learning language. I first showcased it on HN, thinking nothing much than to get feedback. It turned out to do decently well in views and reach, even reaching out to the Chinese tech community because someone posted it on a Chinese social website (I forgot the domain name).
Even though Mil's popularity is pretty typical of my other projects, but seeing it going out to other social media is pretty cool.
[0]: https://github.com/HoangTuan110/mil
Show HN: A small and concatenative hobby programming language
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2022
Show HN: A small, concatenative hobby programming language. Implemented in C99
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Aug 2022

potion

Posts with mentions or reviews of potion. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-05.

How Do I Create A programming Language In Lua?
5 projects | /r/programming | 5 May 2022
Simple garbage collector and allocation library
2 projects | /r/C_Programming | 21 May 2021

There are much better and portable ways to get the stack bottom. See eg mine https://github.com/perl11/potion/blob/master/core/gc.c#L52 which is also a much better copying, compacting gc

What are some alternatives?

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well - The Future of Assembly Language. https://wellang.github.io/well/

opensmalltalk-vm - Cross-platform virtual machine for Squeak, Pharo, Cuis, and Newspeak.

poprc - A Compiler for the Popr Language

CSpydr - A static typed low-level compiled programming language inspired by Rust and C

Video-Hub-App - Official repository for Video Hub App

rebol - Source code for the Rebol interpreter

KAI - KAI is a distributed computing model written in modern C++ and is cross-plaftorm. Using custom language translators and an executor, KAI provides full reflection, persistence and cross-process communications without having to modify existing source code. KAI Comes with an automated, generational tricolor garbage collector, and Console- and Window-based interfaces.

Fennel - Lua Lisp Language

NoCoin - No Coin is a tiny browser extension aiming to block coin miners such as Coinhive.

Rebol - Source code for the Rebol interpreter

lsblk - List information about block devices in the FreeBSD system.

gcmalloc - Simple C garbage collector