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Pharo, Pixie, Pony, ...?

• stevekemp 8y ago
  I 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 ago
    No virtual machine, but maybe you‘re thinking about https://nim-lang.org https://nim-lang.org ?
    • stevekemp 8y ago
      No, 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 ago
    Pharo is a Smalltalk distribution. I believe it's based on Squeak.