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terra
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Mojo is now available on Mac
Chapel has at least several full-time developers at Cray/HPE and (I think) the US national labs, and has had some for almost two decades. That's much more than $100k.
Chapel is also just one of many other projects broadly interested in developing new programming languages for "high performance" programming. Out of that large field, Chapel is not especially related to the specific ideas or design goals of Mojo. Much more related are things like Codon (https://exaloop.io), and the metaprogramming models in Terra (https://terralang.org), Nim (https://nim-lang.org), and Zig (https://ziglang.org).
But Chapel is great! It has a lot of good ideas, especially for distributed-memory programming, which is its historical focus. It is more related to Legion (https://legion.stanford.edu, https://regent-lang.org), parallel & distributed Fortran, ZPL, etc.
- Why Fennel?
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Two-tier programming language
Terra is the language you're looking for: https://terralang.org/
- Using Lua with C++
- Bog – small, strongly typed, embeddable language
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Nelua, AOT statically typed Lua
Wow, amazing stuff. I love Lua, it was how I learned programming as a kid. Coincidently from the same world as the author. Open Tibia.
The author made a custom client (https://github.com/edubart/otclient) for the game that is still very much in active use by thousands of players. He's a very skilled developer.
Great to see AOT typed Lua, I know of the other solutions: Luau, Teal, TypeScriptToLua, Terra, etc., but this one is my favorite so far.
Love the simple compilation to C (and WASM support via Emscripten). Though Terra's JIT is enticing and good replacement for LuaJIT, this is for embedded systems, it's a good replacement for Lua PUC-Rio.
The World:
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Idris: A Language for Type-Driven Development
Terra is a language that can also do that, and uses Lua as the metaprogramming language. Types are just Lua values.
But unfortunately, there's a lot of work left kind of half-baked so using the language is a pain... if someone invested a lot of time to make Terra work properly and added some tooling around it, wrote proper docs and so on, it would be a really interesting language.
- OOP in C
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Noob question about what's possible with comptime
(I am slightly familiar with a language called Terra (https://terralang.org), which couples C with Lua, where the Lua is basically used as the metaprogramming layer ... sort of like comptime in Zig. And making an SOA data structure is the kind of thing you could do in Lua in Terra. So that was partly the basis for my question).
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Upcoming RISC-V laptop promises free silicon upgrades
> why can't the hardware designer do something simple and clean
If it was easy, it would not need firmware in the first place. Firmware is there because people expect certain features and quality of life. See softmodems.
> write some assembly (without abusing the assembler preprocessor...)
You want https://terralang.org/ and not "just C"/"just Assembler" instead ?
ecl
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ECL FFI: Eval load-foreign-library before load in same file?
Newbie FFI question. I ran into this issue, posted it on ECL: https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/issues/710
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Parenscript
Thanks!
I suspect the work is still ongoing. But maybe not on priority.
This diff from around 3 months ago shows it's likely possible to run it in the browser currently but with a lot of caveats (pretty great nonetheless!).
https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/commit/6af4b...
- Trying to build an android application with SBCL [help wanted]
- ECL targetting WASM via Emscripten - preliminary support
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Implementation comparison
The correct one would be https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl
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Using ECL (or alternative?) to generate a shared library that works as plugin w/ C-based application
building ECL on MSVC-based Windows seems like a nightmare, or possibly I am messing something up: https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/issues/677
- ECL - Embeddable Common-Lisp
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L – A Common Lisp for Embedded Systems (1995) [pdf]
Rather than flogging your blog, it would be better to post the link to the free source code https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl which is linked from the wikipedia page.
What are some alternatives?
nelua-lang - Minimal, efficient, statically-typed and meta-programmable systems programming language heavily inspired by Lua, which compiles to C and native code.
ulisp - A version of the Lisp programming language for ATmega-based Arduino boards.
LuaJIT - Mirror of the LuaJIT git repository
nesper - Program the ESP32 with Nim! Wrappers around ESP-IDF API's.
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
mir - A lightweight JIT compiler based on MIR (Medium Internal Representation) and C11 JIT compiler and interpreter based on MIR
ravi - Ravi is a dialect of Lua, featuring limited optional static typing, JIT and AOT compilers
fe - A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C
titan - The Titan programming language
Fennel - Lua Lisp Language
Lua-RTOS-ESP32 - Lua RTOS for ESP32
abuse - Abuse (1995) by Crack dot Com