sligh
A language for certifying specification (by amw-zero)
urweb
The Ur/Web programming language (by urweb)
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8 | 6 | |
10 | 797 | |
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7.9 | 4.7 | |
7 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
OCaml | Standard ML | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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sligh
Posts with mentions or reviews of sligh.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-27.
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Do transpilers just use a lot of string manipulation and concatenation to output the target language?
But, you still seem hung up on this, so here’s actual code: https://github.com/amw-zero/sligh/blob/main/lib/codegen.ml.
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Thoughts on the Rascal meta-programming language
Of course. Here was the first incarnation: https://github.com/amw-zero/sligh. It has a decent overview of the idea in the readme. To sum it up here, the idea is: have a language built around model-driven development and model-based testing, where you write a simple model of an application, and the implementation and model-based tests are compiled for you. I wrote about the overall model-based testing strategy here. This idea comes from self-certifying compilers that produce proofs of their correctness such as Cogent, but we drop the formality requirement and use property-based testing to compare the implementation and model.
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What modern and mature language does both general purpose and data persistence ?
Honorable mention - I’m working on a language with similar goals: Sligh, and I’ve written about why I think it’s such a compelling idea before as well too.
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April 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
In Sligh, I spent most of the last month introducing a new intermediate representation to make tier splitting (choosing if code should live on the client or server) easier. My goal was to enable derived data, as in a model that queries other models for its data and combines them by processing them in memory. I've been using the example of a personal finance application, so imagine:
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A list of new budding programming languages and their interesting features?
The language that I work on is Sligh, and it's out of the bulleted list because it's nowhere near as mature as any of those that I listed, and I'm more of a verification enthusiast vs. expert. Almost all of the ideas in it are borrowed from somewhere else, but I think the one quasi-unique idea is it allows you to write a pure logical description / specification of an application, and it generates full-stack web application code from that.
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Has anyone tried Pest (parser) and Inkwell (LLVM library) with Rust? Are there any good projects on GitHub using this combo?
I’m currently using Pest, though I wouldn’t exactly recommend my compiler as a ‘good example’ just yet because I’m prototyping and just churning code out.
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March 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
Sligh
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February 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
So tactically it’s currently a source-to-source compiler, where in the source language (my language) you denote the system state transitions, i.e. by writing create!, update!, etc, and those get compiled to corresponding client and server code in the target language (JS for now, but hoping to support WebAssembly in the future). Heres an example program. The compiler source is there too. I’m hacking it together right now, so it’s not my finest work :D
urweb
Posts with mentions or reviews of urweb.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-03.
- My views on NeoHaskell
- Ask HN: Uncommon Web Languages?
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What modern and mature language does both general purpose and data persistence ?
Examples of these are Links and Ur/web.
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A list of new budding programming languages and their interesting features?
Ur-Web
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Async/await inference in Firefly
I’ve heard of Links and Ur-web.
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Lightweight Modular Staging and Embedded Compilers: Abstraction without Regret for High-Level High-Performance Programming
There is definitely prior art for this in Links and Ur-Web, but I'm not as tied to pure functional or dependently-typed languages. Though, we'll see where it goes. Coming up with the right "interface" for that has been a challenge, to say the least, so that's why I keep reading about what's out there.
What are some alternatives?
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awesome-programming-languages - The list of an awesome programming languages that you might be interested in
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tailspin-v0 - A programming language with extreme data-pattern matching and data-declarative syntax, hopefully different enough to be interesting
FStar - A Proof-oriented Programming Language
Argon - Argon programming language
coffeescript - Unfancy JavaScript
edsl - Example of embedding TypeScript as an EDSL inside of another language
gleam - ⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!
haxeui-core - The core library of the HaxeUI framework