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Simple Made Easy (2011)(github.com)
2 points by levodelellis 4y ago|0 comments
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by levodelellis 4y ago
In a project I did long ago (having nothing to do with a compiler) I was dealing with many text compares and two dozen keywords I heard of 'gperf' before but it wasn't giving me good results so I had to hand write my own solu
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by levodelellis 4y ago
I tried twice to start the title with "How" but I guess HN prefers that I don't
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Mike Tyson's Punch Out Renders(youtube.com)
1 points by levodelellis 4y ago|1 comments
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by levodelellis 4y ago
That's exactly why I included it. People automatically think inlining is my intention. In reality I avoid templates and not all of my code is in a class. It's short enough to be a candidate for inlining so I put it in a header. I
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by levodelellis 4y ago
Yes it's mostly for entertainment. I didn't want to stress anyone out with this. Round 2 was specifically to 1) Show people not to take this seriously 2) To serve as an example that some modifications doesn't mean earlier exa
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by levodelellis 4y ago
We'd implemented a few things that aren't useful on its own. For example we haven't implemented opaque types. However now that inlining C code works opaque types are at the top of our list. With opaque types and inlining we&#
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by levodelellis 4y ago
I'm the author, although that's 100% true I was going for "our intuition of optimization is bad". Before writing a word I knew that compilers don't inline code that's not in the compile unit (unless `-flto` is
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by levodelellis 4y ago
The slides seems like a history talk or a pep talk. I didn't really get anything from it and I wrote a non trivial compiler so I would understand the details. This seems like it'd be a fun talk to listen to. A quick search doesn&#
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by levodelellis 4y ago
One constraint C has is its ABI. Bolin compilation model is different (article went up last week) and being constrained by it would be pointless. C allows unsigned variables to wrap, bolin doesn't (not enforced yet, beta is 0.1.0). If
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Why is C slower than Bolin?(bolinlang.com)
3 points by levodelellis 4y ago|4 comments
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by levodelellis 4y ago
I call `array[0]` the first element. I don't know what you'll think of that. I wonder how many multiples of people who like arguing about starting from 1 vs 0 and how many people were confused for more than a day
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by levodelellis 4y ago
It compiles faster than go. Bolin released last week so it's unlikely anyone has heard of it. I had a lot of request to document the language so I'll try to do it one topic at a time. If you reply to this comment I'll try to
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How Does Bolin Compile and How Fast Is It?(bolinlang.com)
1 points by levodelellis 4y ago|1 comments
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by levodelellis 4y ago
Last week Bolin launched so you probably haven't heard of it. I wrote an article on how it compiles. If you reply to this comment I'll try to answer your question. The front page and highlights should give a good summary of what t
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Bolin's Compilation Model(bolinlang.com)
2 points by levodelellis 4y ago|1 comments
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by levodelellis 4y ago
I'm thinking more about your suggestion but off the top of my head I don't know why one would want a break reason. If one comes up anytime soon I'll 100% remember this post > I agree but declaring a name for what you retur
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by levodelellis 4y ago
I'm not good with this site. Do most people have some kind of notification when someone replies to them? Is the problem with short circuits that you can ignore the error? It's not documented yet but `error return` requires the fun
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by levodelellis 4y ago
Sounds like it would confusing to read due to inconsistent styles. A few people write transpilers for fun to change syntax of simple languages so it's not an uncommon thought
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by levodelellis 4y ago
> if you implicitly claim to have solved some huge, difficult research problem but provide no real details You do realize you can download the compiler and confirm for yourself that it's all working right this very moment? There&#x2
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by levodelellis 4y ago
Are you saying I should write a paper? I'm not sure how much it would help when a lot of it is intricate to the design of the language. I have no idea what the page limit of papers are and what the point would be besides for fun. I nev
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by levodelellis 4y ago
> Allow for Error short circuits Is the `try` keyword in the highlight section what you're looking for? You can write `var = try fn()` Thanks. I fixed the typo when I first saw this hours ago but it's been busy and I forgot to
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by levodelellis 4y ago
Ironically enough I do want people to benchmark Bolin. It's very performant. I didn't want to modify the EULA and accidentally put a hole in it. I'll definitely have a new one when the compiler gets to 1.0 The compiler should
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by levodelellis 4y ago
> Is the website and forum written in your language? I forgot to answer this. It isn't but that'd be a good milestone.
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by levodelellis 4y ago
Multiple times there are several months without me considering or refining a feature. Development was less than that. I wouldn't know what people want to know about. In real life with friends and coworkers don't really want to hea
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by levodelellis 4y ago
A friend suggested this to me! I felt having `.` on a loop would be weird because it isn't working on an object A few people said they want single statements on conditionals. If `=>` (or `::` as someone else suggested) forced the st
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by levodelellis 4y ago
_OnComplete works on while and for loops. There's an empty as well and I'm not sure if empty should also execute complete or not. I figure I'll know after writing real code in more than one project
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by levodelellis 4y ago
> automatic memory management I wrote some specifics in this thread over a few comments but that and the type system are complex. It can be a talk and writing short post probably will satisfy no one
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by levodelellis 4y ago
> However I don't like that they start with an underscore Early on _[A-Z] meant reserved variable so that's why it's currently _On . Many keywords are a single word and common enough that it shouldn't bother anyone th
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by levodelellis 4y ago
Comparing perl to a language that wants to be readable is very funny to me For me, the problem is when my expression got long or if I call a function with multiple parameters. The more complex the line is the easier it is to not notice the

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