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I'm working on Glyph, Its a is a statically typed functional language in the ML family. Surface syntax is mostly SML-1997-ish, but underneath it's a different
by weatherlight 3mo ago
I'm working on Glyph, Its a is a statically typed functional language in the ML family.
Surface syntax is mostly SML-1997-ish, but underneath it's a different thing: simple-sub type inference, algebraic effects, modular implicits, and Perceus-style reference counting instead of a tracing GC.
The compiler is currently a Rust frontend -> Zig codegen -> native binary pipeline.
Its been a lot of fun thus far.
- PenguineDavid 3mo agoFunny I was going to make a programming language called Glyph as well but than i discovered GlyphLang so I decided to call it Kith instead.
- stevekemp 3mo agoWhen creating a programming language it's worth assuming nobody will ever use it. So name it after yourself, or give it a single-letter name (that seems equally common based on looking at /r/compilers or /r/ProgrammingLanguages). I named my toy "s", s for Steve, so I could do both at the same time!