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It would be great to have a language that is a love child of Erlang and Rust. All I need is: repl, message passing, actor model, lightweight-threads and strong
by datadeft 3y ago
It would be great to have a language that is a love child of Erlang and Rust. All I need is: repl, message passing, actor model, lightweight-threads and strong types. :)
- kaba0 3y agoScala? A good contender might be OCaml as well.
- hugofirth 3y agoI wish Swift wasn’t so tied to the Apple ecosystem, as it has (IMO) a good mix of these
- brabel 3y agoThe love child of Erlang and Rust exists already: Pony. https://www.ponylang.io https://www.ponylang.io It really is the best of both languages... unfortunately, the main supporter of Pony seems to have stopped using it in favour of Rust though :D. But if that's really what you want, Pony is your language. It definitely deserves more love.
- rakoo 3y agoAre you looking for pony (https://www.ponylang.io/discover/#what-is-pony https://www.ponylang.io/discover/#what-is-pony) ? Never tried it, but it does have actors, reference capabilities (in short, "who can get this piece of memory and what can they do with it") but sadly no repl. There is a playground though (https://playground.ponylang.io/ https://playground.ponylang.io/).
- birdfood 3y agohttps://gleam.run https://gleam.run is a statically typed language on the BEAM