Designing a Language (2017)

I would like to see Raku (https://raku.org) at least mentioned in the list of languages to be aware of. Why? - Raku has built in Grammars so it is a great place to do early iteration of your parser - Raku is objects and type classes all the way down (as explained here https://gist.github.com/raiph/849a4a9d8875542fb86df2b2eda89296 ) - RakuAST development is well advanced (use v6.e.PREVIEW) with the Slangify module to accelerate development of sub languages (Slangs) Here is a Raku implementation of…

If you want to design a programming language, and are okay with building off of an existing language, I suggest giving Racket a try. It can do more than just create DSLs and compile down to Racket code. I recently learned about sham* which allows interfacing with LLVM. I've linked some examples and references below References 1. https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/languages.html 2. https://docs.racket-lang.org/turnstile/ Examples 1. https://github.com/soegaard/urlang 2. https://github.com/rjnw/sham 3…

TIL that twenty years ago, Paul Graham put Object-Oriented Programming under Pitchfalls and Gotchas in his notes titled Five Questions about Language Design.[1] It is misguided, but perhaps it can help explain the origin of the numerous misguided attacks on OOP published here.[2] [1] Five Questions about Language Design. http://paulgraham.com/langdes.html#:~:text=Object-Oriented%2... [2] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...