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zig
General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
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v
Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io
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rescript
ReScript is a robustly typed language that compiles to efficient and human-readable JavaScript.
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vos
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lua
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ClosedTypeHierarchyDiagnosticSuppressor
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Ask HN: Memory-Safe Low Level Languages
I also love rust and we use it heavily at our startup, but I agree with you and wish there were a mainstream alternative that kept much of the type system, pervasive expressions, and pattern matching while being smaller. I’d accept “very fast” even if it’s not as fast as rust.
One project I’ve seen that I don’t think is particularly active but that I really like the ideas behind is borgo. It compiles to go (thus GC) but is decidedly more rustacean.
Check it out. I hope someone makes something like this wide spread.
https://borgo-lang.github.io/
PS. I have no affiliation with borgo, just an online fan.
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When Zig Is Safer and Faster Than Rust
I wouldn’t use this in production, but this was in HN earlier this year and I love the idea: https://github.com/borgo-lang/borgo
- Understanding the Odin Programming Language
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Good union types in Go would probably need types without a zero value
Features such as type unions. The topic of this conversation.
> Why are we not using OCaml or standardML or even F# (which I tend to look favorably on) more widely then?
In my opinion there are a number of factors. I have most experience with OCaml, so on that:
1. Terrible Windows support.
2. Poor documentation.
3. An obsession with linked lists and recursion, which are great from a theoretical point of view, but abysmal from a performance point of view (and also simplicity IMO).
4. Poor syntax. The dearth of brackets and semicolons makes it very hard to visually parse. Something as simple as mismatched brackets can be very frustrating to resolve. The insistence on (a -> b -> c -> d) style function types is unnecessarily confusing. Generally when there has been a choice between academic cleverness and accessibility they've always chosen cleverness.
5. Global type inference is pretty clearly a mistake at this point.
IMO part of the reason Rust is so successful is that it has taken a lot of the very good ideas from ML and basically fixed all of the above issues.
Standard accessible C style syntax, but expression based and with proper ML style types. Fantastic documentation and Windows support. No linked lists to be seen.
It's such a compelling design someone copied it for Go: https://borgo-lang.github.io/
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Borgo Programming Language
Note that the compiler is not open source.
https://github.com/borgo-lang/borgo/issues/11
- Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
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An unordered list of things I miss in Go
Borgo is an interesting attempt to address some of these issues. I would love it to get real traction.
https://github.com/borgo-lang/borgo
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100 Exercises to Learn Rust
> Other than safety and the like.
I think these are some good points:
https://github.blog/2023-08-30-why-rust-is-the-most-admired-...
On the one hand, "safety" avoids the "use after free" or other bugs which plague programs written in C. For systems programming, that is significant.
On the other hand, the "safety" allows for much easier concurrency.
The higher-level stuff like "pattern matching" is really nice. It's nice enough that it motivated efforts like https://github.com/borgo-lang/borgo
Somewhat implicit is that Rust has enough of a community that there are many good packages/libraries and tools around it.
- A new programming language that compiles to Go
- Borgo is a programming language that compiles to Go
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The primary programming language of borgo is Rust.
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