Hypothisis:

You need exactly 3 programming languages

1. Close-to-the metal, expressive and performant. (Zig)

2. Convenient high-level, automatic memory management, safe for untrusted input. (Janet?)

3. Language for bootstrapping 1 (Forth?)

Bootstraping zig could maybe be building janet with tinycc, and writing a zig interpreter in janet?

Initially i was rooting for #roclang for 2, but i'm sad to say that they seem to have embraced the slop to such an extent that i'm not feeling like investing in the ecosystem at all. Most of the discussion in their zulip seems to be about llms nowadays.

#programming #zig #forth #janet #bootstrapping

I'd been looking for a modern, statically typed, functional language for years, and after using #GleamLang for about a year, I can say I've found it. Didn't expect it to be a BEAM language though!

Shout out to #OCaml, the current runner-up language and #RocLang which I'm looking forward to v0.1 of!

Reading about the Roc programming language, has some neat ideas -- distinction between the "standard library" and separately defined "platforms" is cool. https://www.roc-lang.org/platforms

#roclang

#roclang published 0.0.0-alpha1 ...

I am really looking forward to it.

https://ha.nnes.dev/blog/fuzzing-is-fun/

I tried #fuzzing and really enjoyed it, so I wrote a blogpost about it! It mentions some #RocLang stuff, but you don't need to know any Roc to read it :)

#blogpost #testing #fuzztesting

My first (proper) PR to the #RocLang compiler got merged! :)

https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/pull/7046

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