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zig
General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
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Nim
Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
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nelua-lang
Minimal, efficient, statically-typed and meta-programmable systems programming language heavily inspired by Lua, which compiles to C and native code.
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mir
A lightweight JIT compiler based on MIR (Medium Internal Representation) and C11 JIT compiler and interpreter based on MIR
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ferret
Ferret is a free software lisp implementation for real time embedded control systems. (by nakkaya)
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Lua Is So Underrated
If you like Lua, see Terra, https://terralang.org/
> Terra is a low-level system programming language that is embedded in and meta-programmed by the Lua programming language.. Like C/C++, Terra is a statically-typed, compiled language with manual memory management. But unlike C/C++, it is designed from the beginning to be meta-programmed from Lua.. In Terra, we just gave in to the trend of making the meta-language of C/C++ more powerful and replaced it with a real programming language, Lua.
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Pallene: A statically compiled companion language for Lua
I'd be interested in a compare-and-contrast with Terra: https://terralang.org
The goals and broad approach are quite similar, and I'm sure that the Pallene authors are aware that Terra exists, so I'd love to hear why they decided that a new language was worth pursuing.
- Terra 1.2.0
- Terra is looking for Windows maintainers
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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:
- https://luau-lang.org/
- https://terralang.org/
- https://github.com/teal-language/tl
- https://typescripttolua.github.io/
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The primary programming language of terra is C++.
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