seed7 VS passerine

This release is available at GitHub and SF. There is also a Seed7 installer for windows, which downloads the newest version from SF. The Seed7 Homepage stays at its usual place. There is also a mirror of the Seed7 Homepage at GitHub.

Seed7 at GitHub

bugmagnet@LAPTOP-H6HBEGA9:~$ git clone https://github.com/ThomasMertes/seed7 Cloning into 'seed7'... remote: Enumerating objects: 21021, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (4660/4660), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1118/1118), done. remote: Total 21021 (delta 3677), reused 4454 (delta 3515), pack-reused 16361 Receiving objects: 100% (21021/21021), 15.95 MiB | 6.47 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (18593/18593), done. bugmagnet@LAPTOP-H6HBEGA9:~$ cd seed7 bugmagnet@LAPTOP-H6HBEGA9:~/seed7$ make -f src/mk_linux.mak depend make: *** No rule to make target 'chkccomp.c', needed by 'chkccomp'. Stop.

No. You can see at GitHub that I update Seed7 quite often. Approximately once a month I do a release and this release is announced at r/seed7 and here.

The packages are not updated so often. So you are more up-to-date with the releases (or even more up-to-date by pulling from GitHub).

I committed a corresponding change to GitHub (Support syntax statements without $ (dollar)).

This release is available at GitHub and SF. There is also a Seed7 installer for windows, which downloads the newest version from SF. The Seed7 Homepage stays at its usual place. There is also a mirror of the Seed7 Homepage which uses HTTPS.

Yes, I am regularly working on improvements for Seed7. The changes are checked in at GitHub (see here for the list of commits) and once a month I do a release which is announced at r/seed7.

It all depends on the circumstances behind. In the beginning the core-js maintainer had no family and now he has. When I released Seed7 I already had a family. It was clear that my job had to support my family and my hobby (GitHub link).

Syntax highlighting for the Nano editor has been added. Many thanks to Duke Normandin for creating seed7.nanorc.

It's still a long way from being complete, but I'm working on something like that[0]. Eventual plans are to have good Rust library interop (e.g. bindings to hyper for http) while also being able to compile to Wasm (to run on an erlang-style distributed runtime / the browser). The language is currently interpreted, but one I get typechecking working, I should be able to merge in the Wasm codegen backend I'm working on (with eventual plans for LLVM). Current compiler has zero external dependencies.

Language itself could be described as a mix of OCaml, Scheme, and Lua. Currently working on the hygienic procedural macro system and system injection through algebraic effects.

[0]: https://github.com/vrtbl/passerine

Passerine was the next language i decided to try to fit onto paka, but alas this one too was eventually put aside for the time being.

Tossing my hat in for Passerine [1]. Gorgeous ML inspired syntax. Built for scripting Rust applications.

Dreaming here: Lua is a fantastic scripting language, but the Rust FFI isn’t as ergonomic as it could be. Enter Luster [2], which is basically LuaJIT rewritten in Rust.

Embedding a scripting language in a Rust application gives you tons of power (e.g. scripting Rust structs from Lua [3]), and setting this up isn’t terribly difficult.

[1] https://github.com/vrtbl/passerine

[2]: https://github.com/kyren/luster

[3]: https://git.sr.ht/~ioiojo/kiwi

Seed7 and https://github.com/vrtbl/passerine (and seemingly more as others have suggested) have direct / first-class support of syntax declaration/definition in a homoiconic way, as powerful as LISPs, but feels more "natural" compared to a LISP.

It used to work pretty well only if the core PL makes semicolons programmable, but given the development of effect systems, plus customizable syntax as in https://github.com/ThomasMertes/seed7 and https://github.com/vrtbl/passerine , I'd say, there are much more we can do about it.

git clone https://github.com/vrtbl/passerine