paco vs ink

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paco		ink
	Project
2	Mentions	6
27	Stars	550
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	1.8
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	almost 3 years ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	MIT License

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.

paco

Posts with mentions or reviews of paco. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

paco: A simple POC of a compiler to C in GO
1 project | /r/coolgithubprojects | 4 Feb 2021
A small sketch of a compiler to C in Golang
1 project | /r/golang | 4 Feb 2021

ink

Posts with mentions or reviews of ink. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-31.

Ink: Minimal, functional programming language inspired by modern JavaScript, Go
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Apr 2023
Private Programming Languages
3 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 31 Jan 2022

https://github.com/thesephist/ink is a good example. You can hear its author in metamuse podcast 42 https://podcasts.apple.com/ru/podcast/metamuse/id1504506097
Ink: A minimal programming language inspired by modern JavaScript and Go
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Aug 2021
Creating the Golfcart Programming Language
1 project | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 17 Jul 2021

Go seemed to work quite well for Ink (https://github.com/thesephist/ink) and I liked that I didn't need to worry about picking the right dependancies (e.g. like with Rust) because Go's standard library covers all the use-cases of building a general purpose language.
Hacker News top posts: Jul 11, 2021
4 projects | /r/hackerdigest | 11 Jul 2021

Ink programming language\ (14 comments)
Dot Ink Language
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jul 2021

For someone who care the implementation than the high-level design: It's written in go, interpreter-based, and pretty small [1].
Although the author seems to be a well-studied PL lover, you don't have to be like this to create a small language. It's fun experience and there are books for non-experts like [3].
- [1] https://github.com/thesephist/ink/tree/master/pkg/ink
- [2] https://thesephist.com/posts/pl/
- [3] https://interpreterbook.com/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing paco and ink you can also consider the following projects:

abs - Home of the ABS programming language: the joy of shell scripting.

puppy-browser - An example implementation of a tiny Web browser for educational purposes.

go - The Go programming language

ink - Parity's ink! to write smart contracts.

Gentee script programming language - Gentee - script programming language for automation. It uses VM and compiler written in Go (Golang).

hicolor - 🎨 Convert images to 15/16-bit RGB color with dithering

gocaml - :camel: Statically typed functional programming language implementation with Go and LLVM

ink - inkle's open source scripting language for writing interactive narrative.

tengo - A fast script language for Go

funl - FunL programming language

ChezScheme - Chez Scheme

monocle - Universal personal search engine, powered by a full text search algorithm written in pure Ink, indexing Linus's blogs and private note archives, contacts, tweets, and over a decade of journals.