nickmqb

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by nickmqb 8y ago
Good point, I agree that's a bit of an awkward case. It's something I'm planning to keep an eye on. If this becomes a problem in practice, we can do something about it.
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by nickmqb 8y ago
There's quite a bit of overlap with Zig (and maybe even more with V, which recently appeared on HN). Some differences between Muon and Zig: - Syntax/ergonomics: Muon has return type inference, Go-like syntax/no semicolons, no
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by nickmqb 8y ago
Thanks for the kind words! Correct, the initial compiler is built using the C# interpreter; the compiler can then be used to compile the next version of itself. Bugs and backwards incompatible language changes can be a problem though. For t
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by nickmqb 8y ago
Ah, good question. Rust could definitely be in that list as well! It's a more mature language (so that's why I didn't mention it in the list), but conceptually it very much fits.
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by nickmqb 8y ago
Correct, tagged pointers are just for pointer unions, a value union could be emulated using the transmute builtin function. A more general mechanism for discriminated unions is on the roadmap. It would have been nice to include it for the i
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by nickmqb 8y ago
That's a fair point. It's the reason that I've marked significant whitespace as "experimental" in the documentation. Since the language is in an early stage, I think it's OK to try some slightly more experiment
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by nickmqb 8y ago
Right now, you'd have to use OS-specific threading APIs for that (via foreign function declarations). I'm planning to add threading support to the standard library to make it easier to write cross-platform multi-threaded code. Als
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by nickmqb 8y ago
Yes, one of the goals for Muon is to make it easy to use Muon code from another language. There's a recent wave of new languages in the same spirit as Muon, like Zig, Kit, Jai and V (the last two have not yet been released). But since
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Show HN: Muon, a low-level programming language inspired by C, C# and Go(github.com)
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