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schmu
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November 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
Since the last time I posted, I finished implementing pattern matching for schmu. To make matching on multiple columns less confusing I also added a tuple syntax to the language (finally), which are treated as anonymous records in codegen. Since then, I'm trying to overhaul my memory management, as my RAII-like solution only worked for linear code. In my first big departure from OCaml semantics, I decided to implement mutable value semantics. The paper linked in the Val language introduction makes a strong case for value semantics and after watching a couple of talks by Dave Abrahams, I wanted to try see how it feels. By making mutability be transitive and explicit, it also fixes one of the (few) gripes I have with OCaml that an array can never be really const as it is a reference type (it's possible to enforce constness with modules, but that's not exactly lightweight, syntax wise). Implementing mutable value semantics was pretty straight forward on the typing side, but I'm still not completely done with the codegen. This is due to 1. Assumptions about immutability I made in a lot of places are now wrong, and I had to completely change the way I pass values to functions. 2. I had to implement reference counted arrays, which was more work than I thought it would be. There are still edge-cases coming up in testing from time to time. Yesterday I finally managed it work for tail recursion, yay! I'm looking forward to getting rid of unneeded reference count updates in the future, by moving them to compile time, at least for linear code, lobster style. That's also an excuse to read that Perceus paper again. For the rest of November, I want to enhance my module system a bit. In particular, I want to add signatures and allow locally abstract types. I hope to have this in place before December to do the Advent of Code in my language.
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September 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I'm still working on my toy language schmu, an ML-inspired language which uses LLVM as backend.
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May 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I spent the time off over the Easter break to write the first program in my language which is not an explicit test and ended up implementing Ray Tracing In One Weekend. It was very rewarding to see how usable the language is already.
awesome-low-level-programming-languages
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Cwerg: C-like language that can be implemented in 10kLOC
(see https://github.com/robertmuth/awesome-low-level-programming-...)
- Good resources to find new and in development programming languages?
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Where are the C Alternatives?
I am maintaining a list low level languages here: https://github.com/robertmuth/awesome-low-level-programming-languages feel free to send PRs for corrections and additions.
- old languages compilers
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Georgia Tech professor's thoughts on C/C++ alternatives
A curated list of langauges like the ones mentioned in the video: https://github.com/robertmuth/awesome-low-level-programming-languages
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August 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
More of a meta project to help me understand the "space": awesome-low-level-programming-languages
- Creator of SerenityOS announces new Jakt programming language effort
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May 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
I have started looking into a frontend language. Not sure yet if I should roll my own or try to hook up Cwerg to an existing language. In any case that language should be a systems language similar to the ones described in awesome-low-level-programming-languages.
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If Lua is faster and smaller than Python, while being just as powerful and capable, then why is Python so much more popular?
Funny, I am also in the market for a C++ alternative and had looked at Nim before. I felt it was a bit "kitchen-sinky" but I'll give it another shot. A comparison of system languages that came out of this effort can be found here: https://github.com/robertmuth/awesome-low-level-programming-languages
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Announcement: Seed7 version 2021-12-25
Unrelated: I maintain https://github.com/robertmuth/awesome-low-level-programming-languages feel free to send a PR with an entry for seed7 if you feel it is appriopriate.
What are some alternatives?
Forscape - Scientific computing language
Vale - Compiler for the Vale programming language - http://vale.dev/
vult - Vult is a transcompiler well suited to write high-performance DSP code
GLhf - OpenGL Application Abstraction
Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
peridot - A fast functional language based on two level type theory
boba - A general purpose statically-typed concatenative programming language.
Cwerg - The best C-like language that can be implemented in 10kLOC.
creed-tui - A tui editor with creed integration. WIP
TablaM - The practical relational programing language for data-oriented applications