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I find the same, but there are rare gems out there. Frustratingly I saw a fun-looking language posted here before, which was a virtual-machine based system. I
by stevekemp 8y ago
I find the same, but there are rare gems out there.
Frustratingly I saw a fun-looking language posted here before, which was a virtual-machine based system. It was small, clear, and had a good range of libraries and I'm damned if I can find it again!
- rkeene2 8y agoProbably Tcl ;-)
- dunefox 8y agoPharo, Pixie, Pony, ...?
- stevekemp 8y agoI looked those up: https://pharo.org/ https://pharo.org/ - A language with an IDE http://pixielang.org/ http://pixielang.org/ - A lisp. https://www.ponylang.io/ https://www.ponylang.io/ Sadly not a match. All I remember was that the language was written in C, compiled to bytecode and was executed in a virtual machine (like Lua, and similar languages). It was "small" and "fast" and probably had a C-like syntax. I should perform a decent search, because the more I think about it the more I'm annoyed now!
- lorenzk 8y agoNo virtual machine, but maybe you‘re thinking about https://nim-lang.org https://nim-lang.org ?
- stevekemp 8y agoNo, it was definitely bytecode/vm-based. That was one of the reasons I was interested - because I've written a couple of toy virtual machines myself. I should just post an "Ask HN: Tell me of your niche languages" and hope I get lucky!
- masukomi 8y agoPharo is a Smalltalk distribution. I believe it's based on Squeak.
- Solarsail 8y agohttp://wren.io/ http://wren.io/ Has been around HN before, as has https://fascinatedbox.github.io/lily/ https://fascinatedbox.github.io/lily/ Were either of these two the ones you were thinking of?
- stevekemp 8y agowren was the project i Was thinking of, thank you so much for the help!