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Right, I see. I wasn't aware of Alpaca, that's quite cool. I've read a little bit about Elixir and about how it's basically a big box of macros and magic dust t
by adenozine 5y ago
Right, I see. I wasn't aware of Alpaca, that's quite cool. I've read a little bit about Elixir and about how it's basically a big box of macros and magic dust that goes down to simple, straight erlang in the end, if I had more time I'd love to dig into their compiler.
Alpaca looks very neat, and ML is right up my alley. thanks again for showing this!
I can admit I am no BEAM expert and it seems my thought offended the experts, but I just like the aesthetic of modularity played out to the logical conclusion of syntactic extensions unto intermediate forms.
- lpil 5y agoSadly Alpaca development has stopped. One of the reasons I started Gleam is that I was working on the Alpaca standard library and realised that the bugs I was reporting were not getting fixed.
- ch4s3 5y ago> I can admit I am no BEAM expert and it seems my thought offended the experts Who knows? I didn't find the musing particularly off putting. As Alpaca is apparently dead there's also LFE[1] and Hamler[2]. Most devs in the space stick to either Elixir or Erlang so ymmv. [1] https://github.com/lfe/lfe https://github.com/lfe/lfe [2] https://github.com/hamler-lang/hamler https://github.com/hamler-lang/hamler
- lpil 5y agoPurerl is another good one to look at. It's an alternative backend to the PureScript compiler, which is quite a popular language!