reagents VS haxe

The 1978 paper proposes a reasonable set of primitives and then walks through prose examples with them. The book proposes roughly the same primitives (channels are the big change, but stop is barely in the paper) and describes them in a formal notation for state machines. It's the difference between a sketch of a plausible idea and writing down the mathematics.

Related though much later, ocaml https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/reagents observed that the send/recv primitives make less sense than a swap primitive. Between occam and the current ocaml effort, concurrent ML is the same sort of model with the details really well thought through (e.g. a thread executing stop gets garbage collected).

Still early days, but I had done some exploratory work in the past on Reagents, a composable lock-free library [1]. Now that OCaml 5 is released, we're reviving this work.

It's semantics is weaker than STM -- unlike STM, it doesn't provide serializability but Reagents can compile down to multi-word compare and swap operations, which can be implemented with the help of hardware transactions (when present) or efficient software implementations of it [2]. Hence, Reagent programs should be faster than STM.

[1] https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/reagents

This remineds me of Haxe[1]. I like Wax better because of the Common-Lisp-like syntax.

[1]: https://haxe.org

I thought this was a three.js demo but it's actually built with a language called haxe [1]. I've never heard of this language before and looks really cool. Makes me want to play with it!

[1] https://haxe.org/

The Haxe programming language (https://haxe.org/). It's insane how unpopular this is compared to its value.

"Haxe can build cross-platform applications targeting JavaScript, C++, C#, Java, JVM, Python, Lua, PHP, Flash, and allows access to each platform's native capabilities. Haxe has its own VMs (HashLink and NekoVM) but can also run in interpreted mode."

It's mostly popular in game dev circles, and is used by: Nortgard, Dead Cells, Papers Please, ... .

For those interested in cross platform game development, don't forget https://haxe.org/! The usefulness / popularity ratio is very high on this one :).

Sounds like haxe: https://haxe.org/

I really enjoyed programming in AS3, and https://haxe.org/ was really helpful at the time to make development easier.

Been tinkering in the Haxe programming language recently. I definitely suggest checking it out, but one thing I liked was private constants. I know other languages have this, but its where I've encountered it most recently.