Re: All Community Discord channels are now being bridged to Matrix
On Sunday, 16 January 2022 at 01:02:22 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 1/15/22 16:53, Paul Backus wrote: there is a Matrix client for emacs: I am not surprised at all. :) Matrix sounds very promising: https://matrix.org/ Ali Everything literally exist for emacs
Re: styx, a programming languange written in D, is on the bootstrap path
On Sunday, 16 January 2022 at 19:40:33 UTC, Basile B. wrote: On Sunday, 16 January 2022 at 18:53:45 UTC, Brian Callahan wrote: I was able to make a quick port to OpenBSD; works fine there too. Thanks for your work on this! ~Brian holly s**t ! I'm a bit surprised that it works, especially because of the way linking is done. That's the only thing the port needs. You just have to teach the styx compiler how to link things on OpenBSD. It's incredibly straightforward :) ~Brian
Re: styx, a programming languange written in D, is on the bootstrap path
On Sunday, 16 January 2022 at 18:53:45 UTC, Brian Callahan wrote: I was able to make a quick port to OpenBSD; works fine there too. Thanks for your work on this! ~Brian holly s**t ! I'm a bit surprised that it works, especially because of the way linking is done.
Re: styx, a programming languange written in D, is on the bootstrap path
On Sunday, 16 January 2022 at 17:09:07 UTC, Basile B. wrote: On Friday, 15 January 2021 at 09:54:59 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 17:51:51 UTC, Basile B. wrote: This is the last[1] occasion to speak about a programming language initiatly made in D, as the bootstrap phase is very near. Interesting project! How did you move from D to Styx? (I assume bootstrapping means a self hosting compiler?) Did you write some scripts to translate? It turns out that finally everything was translated manually. This was a bit painful but also an opportunity to review older parts and to change a details that otherwise would not have been done. Interesting language. I was able to make a quick port to OpenBSD; works fine there too. Thanks for your work on this! ~Brian
Re: styx, a programming languange written in D, is on the bootstrap path
On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 18:03:12 UTC, IGotD- wrote: On Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 17:51:51 UTC, Basile B. wrote: This is the last[1] occasion to speak about a programming language initiatly made in D, as the bootstrap phase is very near. I'd like to thank the D compiler developers, that let me work on DMD even if I borrow another path. [1] : https://gitlab.com/styx-lang/styx Interesting project. A few questions. I see that you use "var auto name" in order to automatically infer the type. Would it be possible just using "var name" for that, similar to other popular languages. There is currently no information about memory management, is this something you have an idea how to design right now? It has a memory management system very comparable to older Delphi (<= 2007) or current FreePascal. So dynamic arrays are reference counted and automatically managed when used a local var. Classes and structures are manually managed but the dtor is automatically called when the instance is a local. This system is proven to work as the compiler itself is now rewritten in styx. (example, the valgrind report after running the compiler with the equivalent of D "-unittest" CLI option : https://gitlab.com/styx-lang/styx/-/jobs/1980055910#L110. To be honest I already knew it will work before implementing ref counting. This has been used for something like 30 years by hundreds and hundreds of programmers.
Re: styx, a programming languange written in D, is on the bootstrap path
On Friday, 15 January 2021 at 09:54:59 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 17:51:51 UTC, Basile B. wrote: This is the last[1] occasion to speak about a programming language initiatly made in D, as the bootstrap phase is very near. Interesting project! How did you move from D to Styx? (I assume bootstrapping means a self hosting compiler?) Did you write some scripts to translate? It turns out that finally everything was translated manually. This was a bit painful but also an opportunity to review older parts and to change a details that otherwise would not have been done.
Re: All Community Discord channels are now being bridged to Matrix
On Sunday, 16 January 2022 at 01:02:22 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 1/15/22 16:53, Paul Backus wrote: there is a Matrix client for emacs: I am not surprised at all. :) Matrix sounds very promising: https://matrix.org/ Ali Now all we need is a Matrix client written in D.
