Create a new language ?

Sergey kornburn at yandex.ru
Mon Nov 6 21:00:42 UTC 2023


On Monday, 6 November 2023 at 20:00:51 UTC, Alain De Vos wrote:
> Why not create a new language.
> With ideas from scala,ocaml,f#,haskell.
> A language from scratch.
> With syntactic sugar as needed.
> But where the language compiles to a simple dlang .d file.
> Which you compile to an executable using ldc2.
>
> Now features are available as libraries but it leads to "ugly 
> code" as reader of code.
> And there are multiple ways of doing the same thing which means 
> the reader of code has to know all the ways. Enforce one way.
>
> Feel free to elaborate.

What is the reason to use D as a backend?
Usually people using C or LLVM.

Also Scala, OCaml, F#, Haskell - all functional languages. Maybe 
you will be interested in https://www.roc-lang.org - very young 
language and WIP. You can participate in development.


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