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In this post I want to make this kind of simplicity more precise and talk about some reasons it’s important. I propose five key ideas for simple programming languages: ready-at-hand features, fast iteration cycles, a single way of doing things, first-order reasoning principles, and simple static type systems. I discuss each of...

TLDR; do you know of any general purpose languages that can also compile a function to some representation of AND/OR gates (or NAND gates, or whatever)?...

These toolchain are created for experts to create industrial-level compilers. Even if you think you got a syntactic design concept that is such hot shit that you can’t wait to get it bootstrapped, even if hell, it proves Rice’s theorem wrong, please, write a simple interpreter for it to prove your syntax works. In fact, I...

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I’ve never felt the urge to make a PL until recently. I’ve been quite happy with a combination of Rust and Julia for most things, but after learning more about BEAM languages, LEAN4, Zig’s comptime, and some newer languages implementing algebraic effects, I think I at least have a compelling set of features I would like to...

Call-by-push-value is an evaluation strategy that determines when arguments to functions are evaluated. Call-by-value is what every mainstream language does: arguments are evaluated before the function is called. Call-by-name substitutes arguments directly into a function, so they may be evaluated multiple times or not at all....

JSON and YAML work great for passing data between languages....

I want to make my programming language! …for fun....

I think, especially in programming language communities, that there tends to be a preference towards making a static language for their compile time guarantees, and this is a pretty concrete counterargument as to why people find dynamic languages “easier to program in”

This essay says that inheritance is harmful and if possible you should “ban inheritance completely”. You see these arguments a lot, as well as things like “prefer composition to inheritance”. A lot of these arguments argue that in practice inheritance has problems. But they don’t preclude inheritance working in another...

After getting angry at Lua for bugs reappearing after fixing them, and otherwise having issues with making it interoperable with my own language of choice (D), I decided to roll out my own VM out, with some enhanced optional features compared to regular Lua (type safety, static arrays on the stack, enhanced metatables, etc.),...

Hey. I have made some DSLs before, and for all of them, most of which were in C, I have used Flex and Bison. But this time I wanna use Scheme, Cyclone Scheme to be exact. I can potentially use Flex/Bison this time too, because Cyclone has a strong FFI to C....

Created by Niko Matsakis, a core Rust developer (Language Team leader) who was influential in its evolution. He wrote the last article I posted. Also worked on by Brian Anderson, another core developer who worked on Rust in its early stages, on critical features such as the ....

In something like C++ you could create a scope like so:...

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these are the conclusions I’ve reached. if you have anything against please leave it in the comments

Cocinelle for C, the original

How much progress have you made since last time? What new ideas have you stumbled upon, what old ideas have you abandoned? What new projects have you started? What are you working on?...

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/8198886...