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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.
na
Posts with mentions or reviews of na.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-19.
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Yz - What happens when you oversimplify programming languages.
So far I've only documented the syntax.
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Why are you building a programming language?
I tried to distill down the most essential features of TS/JS (functional, prototypal) and then come up with new syntax and semantics that was minimal, orthogonal and hopefully easy to learn and use. The result is kesh and na.
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August 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
Improved na's documentation. na is the underlying data notation format.
langs
Posts with mentions or reviews of langs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.
- How does the compiler know that an already typedefed ident is meant to be a new declarator?
- What makes a language easy for writing a parser?
- Automatic import of C headers —how to deal with macros?
- Register Window in a Stack VM Interpreter
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A challenge: 52 languages in 52 weeks
Well, I only wrote a few dozen lines in each. (Those benchmarks I wrote are here, all in one file; scroll through to find them. Those two will be at the end.
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'Switch' and 'Computed Goto'
Next I tried writing a custom C program just for the VM execute function; mostly this was a framework machine-generated from my interpreter, with the handlers necessary filled in manually.
This is my doswitch/u-based test program, a mini-interpreter executing a loop.
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Is it possible to optimize this bytecode interpreter more?
Actually the next thing I did after trying svm.c was to port it to my systems language to see how my compiler managed with it. (Source is here.)
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Where are the C Alternatives?
I have taken something away from Forth which is the (a--b) notation that describes the stack behaviour. I use it in these early docs of my IL here.
- Langception IV: I wrote BASIC in Charm, which I also wrote.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing na and langs you can also consider the following projects:
prolog-to-minizinc - A Prolog-to-MiniZinc translator
rakudo - 🦋 Rakudo – Raku on MoarVM, JVM, and JS
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
vox - Vox language compiler. AOT / JIT / Linker. Zero dependencies
wabt - The WebAssembly Binary Toolkit
Cwerg - The best C-like language that can be implemented in 10kLOC.
factor - Factor programming language
xvm - Ecstasy and XVM
c2rust - Migrate C code to Rust
futhark - :boom::computer::boom: A data-parallel functional programming language
TablaM - The practical relational programing language for data-oriented applications