Star Alternatives

star reviews and mentions

• The 3 languages question
  1 project | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 27 Jun 2022

  my own language Star! enjoyability is one of my main goals with the language, along with the "powerful, productive, and predictable" line

• Language Design: Against Mixed-cased Type Names
  2 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 5 Jun 2022

  This is actually done by several bootstrapped languages, such as Crystal, Nim, Raku, and even my own language Star

• Your language's favorite MINOR feature?
  2 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 24 Mar 2022

  In Star, commas and newlines are analogous everywhere, even inside array literals. This actually solves the issue of trailing commas by not needing commas at all

• Building a new .NET language, doing to C# what Kotlin did to Java
  3 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 19 Feb 2022

  I really like Nemerle's OOP+FP hybrid model, and I've taken a lot of it to heart while designing my language Star, which is similar in spirit.

• extending enums
  1 project | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 19 Dec 2021

  Most languages are afraid to for some reason, most likely because it "breaks tradition" or whatever. The only languages I'm aware of that allow this are Hack (for C-like enums) and my language Star (for both C-like and OCaml-like enums)

• Is there a language with structural type constraints for variants and records?
  3 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 4 Dec 2021

  It's currently a work-in-progress, mainly due to subtyping issues with generics (which I'm honestly too lazy to fix rn, focusing on other stuff first). the code is located here, although be aware that it's a bit messy lol

• November 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
  13 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 1 Nov 2021

  Making lots of progress on Star's typechecker, which has been very difficult due to its expansive type system. Although still not completely finished or useable, it does at least work a bit. Currently need to implement type variable expansion/substitution, "lazy" type refinement (because I have no clue what else to call it), and some basic support for existentials

• Initially-nullable types
  2 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 25 Oct 2021

  I think this is referred to as partial or lazy initialization. I have this feature in my own language Star (which us null-safe), but I don't have an actual null literal for this purpose

• Programming Language Checklist
  1 project | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 13 Oct 2021

  Sure I guess, here's one for Star: ``` You appear to be advocating a new: [X] functional [X] imperative [X] object-oriented [ ] procedural [ ] stack-based [X] "multi-paradigm" [ ] lazy [ ] eager [X] statically-typed [ ] dynamically-typed [ ] pure [X] impure [ ] non-hygienic [ ] visual [X] beginner-friendly [ ] non-programmer-friendly [ ] completely incomprehensible programming language. Your language will not work. Here is why it will not work.

• Typechecking new type system features
  2 projects | /r/types | 7 Sep 2021

  Hello, I'm the developer of the Star programming language, and I have some questions about how to typecheck several new/uncommon features that it has, and looking for feedback on it in general.

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