Programming languages in 25 days, Part 2: Reflections on language design

• ultraviolet

  4 727 5.6 Rust

  A wide linear algebra crate for games and graphics.

  2. Using macros for codegen, as seen in almost all other linear algebra crates, e.g. ultraviolet (https://crates.io/crates/ultraviolet)

  The drawback of (1) is that it's hard to understand or extend, and the type errors are insane, and put Boost to shame. The drawback of (2) is that's just a macro. Of course (1) and (2) are not interoperable.

  C++ templates are really underappreciated, because they are a single mechanism that gives you both powerful generics and macro-like codegen, while being easy to adopt gradually. (E.g. you can add concepts when it gets unwieldy, but you don't have to rewrite the whole thing.)

• scroll

  34 329 6.5 JavaScript

  Tools for thought. An extensible alternative to Markdown.

  

  > Java, Go, Javascript, Rust, etc are all regularly written with whitespace, and have tools to enforce such formatting, but they don't derive information from it.

  Ah you reminded me. A curious phenomenon I've observed with Prettier in JS and fmt in Go is languages are moving to standardized whitespace, but as you said, not yet deriving information from it. I don't know enough about Java or Rust but I suspect they probably both have adopted a Prettier/fmt like convention where all code is formatted on save. So it seems like we are moving to a world where it will be a simple flip of a switch to then start having popular languages extract meaning from the whitespace.

  > Also, Python has existed for decades and still there is little further adoption of indentation-sensitivity. It doesn't seem like a wave of indentation-sensitive languages will be coming any time soon.

  I think it's coming big time this year. I think our Scroll (https://scroll.pub/) will catch fire and be the go to language instead of Markdown by the end of the year. Then with the increasing success of TreeBase (powering PLDB and others) we will start to see JSON fall for config formats and document storage databases. A lot more will happen to, data vis will be a big one, but those 2 I'm reasonably certain of happening in 2023.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io

  sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• advent-of-code-2022

  2 49 10.0 Lua

  The github repo:

  https://github.com/mattmight/advent-of-code-2022

Suggest a related project