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anarki
Community-managed fork of the Arc dialect of Lisp; for commit privileges submit a pull request.
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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ChessPositionRanking
Software suite for ranking chess positions and accurately estimating the number of legal chess positions
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zig
General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
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endbasic
BASIC environment with a REPL, a web interface, a graphical console, and RPi support written in Rust
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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If you do want to get into it, checkout first the arc forums (the UI might be familiar to you: http://arclanguage.org/forum) and then after that check out Anarki which is a community-maintained fork of Arc, seems more up-to-date and has some QoL upgrades, https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
Coincidentally, seems my post have been the top #1 post on the Arc forums since I first made it, ~17 days ago. That forum could do with a bit more of traffic :)
Rust is picking up momentum with industrial use but is overall still pretty uncommon. rayon (https://github.com/rayon-rs/rayon) makes it easy to use all your CPU cores. for simple cases, it can be literally a one line change to turn a single-threaded loop into a parallel one.
I did the licensing server for Lunar (https://lunar.fyi/) in Crystal.
It’s been a joy to work with it! The standard library for working with strings, JSON, YAML and XML is top notch. Type safe and extremely fast, very important characteristics for a licensing server that is queried hundreds of times a second.
I used the super simple Kemal HTTP server library which I like for APIs where most of the logic happens on the backend.
I have 8 years of experience as a Python developer and 5 as a Swift developer but after all that time I still like the terseness and type inference of Crystal.
Agree with the OP that it is a dopamine hit to find something that's niche, which also agrees with your sensibility or mental model, or to find the "sweet spot" to use a sport analogy.
For day job I code in high level languages like: javascript/typescript, python, and back in the day: ruby, perl, and php. Never was comfortable in C/C++ but always wanted to get more proficient. And felt like to be honest programmer, I need to know a systems language.
Lately I've been learning Zig https://ziglang.org/ and I'm quite happy with the developer experience, despite it's only at version 0. It's kind of a whole new world I didn't think even possible: C level performance, but with great ergonomics and just basically: it's fun to develop in! Like C, but fun and safe(er).
I guess it's not niche anymore (was it ever?) but I'm coding my hobby projects in Rust. I don't get to use the language at my $dayjob but I find it aligns with my personal opinions on how a native language should be, and it pushes me in interesting ways to learn better idioms to write safe code.
Also, does it count if I'm writing a niche language as my side project? :-) Check out EndBASIC (https://www.endbasic.dev/) if curious.
Gerbil looks a lot like what one very prolific and opinionated hacker calls home. There's an incredible amount of work just by 1 author https://github.com/vyzo/gerbil/graphs/contributors
Whereas racket looks steered mainly by the academic group working on it, with some attention shifting to the new Rhombus project https://github.com/racket/rhombus-prototype
These days everything looks like it's using json/yaml and trying to add logic/constraints to it to make it declarative, either through logic controllers (eg kubernetes operators) or by embedding it in the syntax, eg terraform HCL, declarative UI frameworks.
Scheme DSLs are a good alternative and could be used to generate code or glue between the components you use.
Gerbil looks a lot like what one very prolific and opinionated hacker calls home. There's an incredible amount of work just by 1 author https://github.com/vyzo/gerbil/graphs/contributors
Whereas racket looks steered mainly by the academic group working on it, with some attention shifting to the new Rhombus project https://github.com/racket/rhombus-prototype
These days everything looks like it's using json/yaml and trying to add logic/constraints to it to make it declarative, either through logic controllers (eg kubernetes operators) or by embedding it in the syntax, eg terraform HCL, declarative UI frameworks.
Scheme DSLs are a good alternative and could be used to generate code or glue between the components you use.
Would https://github.com/unchartedworks/SmalltalkVimMode help with your vim needs? (I'm not into vim so I have no idea if that's the best place to start.)
I'm coding a side project in Jack: https://github.com/abhaynayar/genesis
Jack is a language that you create on your own in the Nand2Tetris course. In this project, I first followed the course to build -- assembler, VM translator, compiler and operating system.
Once I finished the course, I decided to build my own CPU emulator so that the whole computing stack is built by me from scratch. Then I decided to change some specifications and also add userland applications to go beyond the course. For example, I have built a chip8 emulator in Jack.
I wrote the backend for my side project http://cryptomarketdepth.com in Haskell (source: https://github.com/cryptomarketdepth/main) in Haskell.
I like to code in Haskell because it works better than any other language I’ve tried — also for larger projects. Where by “works better” I mean that I’m able to deduce what a piece of code does just by reading it more easily than for any other language I’ve tried.
I think it’s the combination of pure functions and strong types that enables this, but I’m not certain.
I forked an abandoned implementation of MQTT for SWI-Prolog by olsky, my fork is at https://github.com/sprior/swi-mqtt-pack
Look in the examples directory for some basic pub/sub code.
The Prolog code that runs in my house is pretty specific to my house so I figured the best way to open source things would be as a framework more than an implementation. You can contact me via issues on the github repo and prod me into adding some more advanced examples - I've learned a lot since my last commit on the repo.
I've started using the Redis functionality recently added to SWI-Prolog, so my code now responds to MQTT messages and uses state queried from Redis to help determine what actions (implemented by sent MQTT messages) to send out. The beauty is that since I don't do anything that blocks significantly in the Prolog code it is now single threaded - even the MQTT listening. It still responds quickly enough and is MUCH easier to deal with than multi-threaded.
An example of what I'm doing is I built a bunch of ESP8266/EESP32 display devices that control neopixels/OLED/LCD displays. When one of those devices boots it sends a MQTT message announcing its location and capabilities (display type, bit depth, dimensions). Prolog receives that message and then stores that info in Redis. So that device info is all dynamic.
So then later Prolog might get a notification that something is in the driveway. All by MQTT it requests an image from the appropriate camera, then sends the image off to Sighthound and deepstack image recognition servers. The Sighthound front end sends a message back to Prolog with a description of any vehicle spotted which Prolog then matches against known vehicles. If it determines for example that a Fedex truck is in the driveway then Prolog sends notifications around the house - it queries all the display devices from Redis and then based on the capabilities of each devices creates a JSON formatted MQTT message to send to each announcing the Fedex truck. It then also sends a MQTT message to some Java code that connects with Google and sends a push message to an Android app I wrote that displays the alert on my phone and watch.
Before I switched to MQTT I was using Prolog with CORBA as the message transport and back then I also had Visual Basic and MS Agent as part of the system. One night I got bored and a little while later had 3 Peedy the Parrot characters singing Row Your Boat in a round across three different computers coordinated by Prolog. It was actually only a page worth of custom Prolog code for that.