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pony-tutorial
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Is there a programming language that will blow my mind?
I don't think that there is a book written about Pony, but the tutorial and the list of patterns (WIP) are all you need to learn the language.
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Not well known programming languages with interesting features?
[Pony](https://tutorial.ponylang.io/): actors, reference capabilities, object capabilities.
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Today, Thanks to this sub Reddit. I discovered 3 awesome new languages....
Pony is a relatively young but interesting language with capabilities-security.
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Does such a language already exist ("Rust--")?
Well, depends on how you define ownership. Pony 's type system has reference capabilities which let you define who's allowed to do what to a reference and part of it sort of deals with ownership (along the lines of "this actor is allowed to do Y to the reference, other actors are allowed to do Z"). You can eg. have methods that return an isolated value that guarantees that there are no other references to that value, meaning it's automatically thread safe. You can also define things as vals which says that they are globally immutable, refs which give the current actor read/write capabilities but can't be shared with other actors
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Flix β Next-generation reliable, concise, functional-first programming language
The alternatives are:
- Division must be impure (because it can throw an exception)
- Division must be partial - i.e. return Option[Int].
Both seem worse compared to defining division by zero as zero. Coq, Lean, and Pony do the same. https://github.com/ponylang/pony-tutorial/blob/master/conten...
firefly-boot
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What's the syntax of lambda expressions in your language?
Firefly, curly braces:
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January 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I'm still working on Firefly, a language with first class capabilities.
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Ask HN: Who Wants to Collaborate?
Since there's no other way for `deleteDirectory` to obtain capabilities than to recieve them as arguments, `deleteDirectory` only has access to the file system.
[1] https://github.com/Ahnfelt/firefly-boot/tree/master/compiler
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Preventing Log4j with Capabilities
> Do you have more to share, like resources about capability-safe languages, or your ongoing work?
I can share an example from the main function of the [self hosting Firefly compiler](https://github.com/Ahnfelt/firefly-boot/tree/master/compiler):
main(system: System): Unit {
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What are some simple but powerful compile-to-JS languages I might not know about, or that you are working on (not Elm, Reason, PureScript, or ClojureScript)?
I'm working on Firefly, which will compile to JS once bootstrapping is complete (almost there).
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June 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
Still working on typechecking Firefly with the help of a friend.
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March 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
Working on the type inference for Firefly. I don't have a lot of free time at the moment, so it's coming along slowly.
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Alternative to monads for enforcing purity?
Firefly uses object capabilities for enforcing purity:
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Generalizing Ruby block syntax in static languages with currying
In Firefly, this is done without macros:
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February 2021 Monthly What Are You Working On
Firefly - self hosting, working on the type inference.
What are some alternatives?
effekt - A research language with effect handlers and lightweight effect polymorphism
xvm - Ecstasy and XVM
sixten - Functional programming with fewer indirections
konna - A fast functional language based on two level type theory
cooltt - πTT
cubiml-demo - A simple ML-like programming language with subtyping and full type inference.
felix - The Felix Programming Language
starlight - JS engine in Rust
zz - πΊπ ZetZ a zymbolic verifier and tranzpiler to bare metal C
IntercalScript - The IntercalScript programming language
io - Io programming language. Inspired by Self, Smalltalk and LISP.
Matrix - Easy-to-use Scientific Computing library in/for C++ available for Linux and Windows.