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This looks very promising. Congrats on the launch. I am enjoying this wave of new programming languages that compile down to existing ones in a human readable
by stephth 15y ago
This looks very promising. Congrats on the launch.
I am enjoying this wave of new programming languages that compile down to existing ones in a human readable way. They are pleasant to write and read and yet performant and don't require a special runtime, making them easy to integrate anywhere in their parent language.
I hope someone talented will build one of these for C/C++. Mobile an game developers could use it.
- anonymoushn 15y agoLuajit already enjoys performance in the ballpark of native code. As far as I know, mobile and game developers do use it.
- stephth 15y agoLua is fast as scripting languages go, but saying it's in the same performance ballpark as native code is a stretch [1]. Game developers that use Lua commonly rely on C/C++ for low level routines. There's a space for innovation there. ooc [2] has been a step in that direction, although its usage of garbage collection makes it much less flexible than CoffeeScript or MoonScript. I don't think developers need to be abstracted from memory management at low level. What they could use is getting rid of a lot of cruft, to be able to write/read/think more quickly. [1] http://attractivechaos.github.com/plb http://attractivechaos.github.com/plb [2] http://ooc-lang.org/ http://ooc-lang.org/