wat-js

Concurrency and Metaprogramming for JS (by manuel)

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  • C Is Not a Low-level Language – Your computer is not a fast PDP-11
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Oct 2023
    Well Forth is possibly the most minimal VM over a platform, as evidenced by openfirmware.

    It does have problems scaling though, in that if you've seen one Forth, you've seen one Forth ie. The variations required to fit a platform make them semi-incompatible.

    That's not to say that a more lispy Forth wouldn't be useful though, in that a concatenative syntax allows us to pass custom datastructures around like APL, and CPS (delimited continuations with lexically scoped dynamic binding would come from the lisp side (see https://github.com/manuel/wat-js).

    Memory management in Forth can handle multiple memory types eg. https://flashforth.com/ so adding something like ref counting (https://github.com/zigalenarcic/minilisp/blob/main/main.c) to handle the dynamic list side of things might mesh well.

    In any case, if you're looking for a self hosting lisp that runs on bare metal, https://github.com/attila-lendvai/maru has been out for a few years.

  • The Workflow Pattern
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Oct 2023
  • Brett Slatkin: Why am I building a new functional programming language?
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Mar 2023
    https://github.com/manuel/wat-js

    If you have delimited continuations then you can construct coroutines/threads/await/async, promises etc.

    I guess that this might be suitable for many scenarios thanks to nodejs, but the runtimes it relies on are not exactly small.

  • The Mysteries of Lisp (2015)
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Apr 2022
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