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This is exactly what I was looking for. There's no real option for a language that allows interactive coding and it's easily embeddable. Please open source asap
by register 8y ago
This is exactly what I was looking for. There's no real option for a language that allows interactive coding and it's easily embeddable. Please open source asap. You will get contributors starting with me.
- laumars 8y agoI’m not taking anything away from the goals of this project but I do feel it’s worth mentioning that there actually are lots of languages that offer interactive coding and are embeddable. Eg JavaScript, Python, LISP, Perl, Lua, etc. Heck, even BASIC fits that criteria. I do wish the author the best with this project though. Plus designing your own language is fun :)
- register 8y agoAll of them have shortcomings when one wants multi-threading. Javascript , Python and Lua implementations are single threaded. Perl is slow. LISP is ideal but the commercial distributions with these features have licesing costs of thousand $. The open source (Common Lisp) implementations have all other deficiencies: not easily embeddable and/or big image sizes and/or slow and/or with poor GC. Currently the best open source option seems to be Gambit Scheme. I am playing with it and while the author is extremely supportive some points are still a little bit rough. In the single thread world there is already a clear winner and that is Lua.
- laumars 8y agoAh yes. I understand a little more the context behind your post. And I don't disagree with the points you raised there either. Thank you for replying :)