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In Nimrod it's easy to piggyback on C, which has the most extensive ecosystem of all languages.
by def- 12y ago
In Nimrod it's easy to piggyback on C, which has the most extensive ecosystem of all languages.
- sanderjd 12y agoBut C's ecosystem is so extensive that everybody can piggyback on it (with varying levels of ceremony).
- tdees40 12y agoSee CPython, Haskell, C++....
- sitkack 12y agoThis might already exist, but if Nimrod could piggy back on Javascript (Node), Python and Ruby for libraries this would be huge. Native glue.
- ascent 12y agoThis is what Perl6 with Parrot VM aim for. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrot_virtual_machine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrot_virtual_machine
- Pacabel 12y agoI don't think that we can really consider Perl 6 and Parrot to be anything but abysmal failures at this point. The people developing and advocating for them have had many years now to product something that's even minimally usable, and we just haven't seen that happen. Writing traditional compilers and interpreters, or emitting C, or targeting LLVM have all proven to be good ways of getting production-grade programming language implementations created and usable quickly. Messing around with Parrot has never resulted in anything useful.
- chromatic 12y agoThat was the goal, but Parrot failed to meet that goal and P6 is years away from being usable.