OT: Morfa - an interesting (toy?) language that claims to be inspired/based on D

Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Oct 20 03:34:10 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 10:22:56 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 10:04:40 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> Not based on D much. Declarations from Rust; if-else ternary 
>> operator from somewhere; import, static if, assert and traits 
>> look like from D; var from C#; templates from C++.
>
> They have "static if" though:
>
> https://github.com/imapp-pl/morfa-examples
>
> But D is also rather close to other languages, so... I guess we 
> just have to believe them when they state that they felt 
> inspired by D.

Well, they also seem to include dmd source code in their source 
tree, so I guess they are literally inspired... Just explore 
their bitbucket repository: morfa / morfa / ldc / dmd

Interesting! Too bad they go GPL, otherwise a feature backport 
might have been possible.



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