ric-script
A modern scripting language; implemented in old school C, yacc & flex (by Ricardicus)
kesh
A simple little programming language that could one day compile to JavaScript. (by kesh-lang)
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
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ric-script
Posts with mentions or reviews of ric-script.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-01.
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July 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
Last month I worked on the language ABI (Application Binary Interface). This is where I have made an effort to make modules buildable and exportable (into dynamic shared libraries) to the language interpreter. I call the build environment for these modules the SDK (software development kit). It is a Meson project that supports not just Unix based platforms but also Windows. Before this month, one could only export functions in modules, but now one can include classes also. For me this felt very good, as I would expect of a language to support as much in the SDK as possible of the original script-language data types. Here is a link to an example module library written in C that can be compiled for export into the language interpreter: https://github.com/Ricardicus/ric-script/blob/master/src/sdk_lib/ext_lib.c
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Building my own programming language using C
I host the source code here at GitHub. There are links to documentation and even an environment where you can test the interpreter on some samples to be found in the README. If you feel like this is an interesting C-project I'd appreciate the dopamine kick of a star over there at the github platform.
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January 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
Continued work on my interpreter for [ric-script](https://github.com/Ricardicus/ric-script) which is an interpreted dynamically typed and lazy evaluated language. Imagine Javascript without semicolon and Python without the indentation thing. I build the syntax tree using yacc. Here is a [code sample](https://ric-script-u5ep8.ondigitalocean.app/doc/syntaxwalkthrough.html#class-declarations) where I build an RPN calculator in it. I’d appreciate the dopamine kick of a star if you find the project interesting.
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How can I support very big integers?
Thank you all! I have made it work now in my project . A sample script can be found here .
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August 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I continuing with building my first programming language. It is an interpreted dynamically typed and lazy evaluated language. It is like a merge of python and javascript, imagine Python except the focus on indentation. I build the syntax tree using yacc. Here is a code sample where I build an RPN calculator in it. The source repository is here, I’d appreciate the dopamine kick of a star if you like it.
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January 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I am building my first programming language. I call it ric-script. It is an interpreted dynamically typed and lazy evaluated language. It is like a merge of python and javascript. I build the syntax tree using yacc. Here is a code sample where I build an RPN calculator in it.
kesh
Posts with mentions or reviews of kesh.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-30.
- Have any of you designed a conlang, and then designed a programming language based on the conlang or any fictional culture that would use it?
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Too many words about Rust's function syntax
I have something similar in kesh, where : is the assignment operator and the type/signature may be "assigned" before the value:
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Temporal Programming, a new name for an old paradigm
I'm not OP, in case you thought that :) kesh lives here. I tried incorporating some of the ideas discussed here, but posponed it to a later language, which I'm still thinking about.
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What language features do you "Consider Harmful" and why?
This is a great idea that I've adopted for my PL. I took it a step further and also allow extensions of the core language to be specified, including profiles.
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Let's talk about interesting language features.
My (non-existing) language kesh, designed to compile to TypeScript, has expression blocks. That was one of my first decisions.
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October 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
Still no work on a compiler, but more work on the documentation of kesh.
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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 kesh, but it's only at the design stage. I have tried to make it simple yet powerful, so I thought I'd mention it even though you can't use it.
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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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September 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I like the way you think. I had the same goal with kesh. A minimal syntax is easier on the eye and lets you focus on the actual code.
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August 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I'm only at the drawing board stage of kesh, a simple little PL that one day might possibly transpile to TypeScript. Not a single line of compiler code has been written so far, it's still all about syntax design and exploring ideas. kesh is mostly a pastime activity and something I can ponder over when I'm bored or can't sleep (which may be the reason I can't sleep).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ric-script and kesh you can also consider the following projects:
pen - The parallel, concurrent, and functional programming language for scalable software development
cubiml-demo - A simple ML-like programming language with subtyping and full type inference.
m42pl-core - A data manipulation language with a focus on flexibility and simplicity.
ghc-proposals - Proposed compiler and language changes for GHC and GHC/Haskell
Cwerg - The best C-like language that can be implemented in 10kLOC.
na - minimal data notation format
seed7 - Source code of Seed7
durin - the Dependent Unboxed higher-oRder Intermediate Notation
xvm - Ecstasy and XVM
bluebird - A work-in-progess programming language modeled after Ada and C++