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"Why build a new language when so many already exist?". I don't know. It seems like an extremely difficult thing to do. And I like doing difficult things for fun.
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"Humanity is worth saving.". ~ Big Titus, (Ultramar F.C)
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To avoid any possible confusion. Writing 500 lines of code in OCaml is not trivial. Specifically for someone like me who is relatively new to OCaml, and this is my first OCaml project.
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My compiler is 577 lines of code as of now. I expect it will be 20,000 lines when completed. The code architecture in the first 500 lines decides if it will remain maintainable for the next 15,500 lines. What this founder is creating, is a tech debt, that will haunt him.
I met a founder today who said he writes 10,000 lines of code a day now thanks to AI. This is probably the limit case. He's a hotshot programmer, he knows AI tools very well, and he's talking about a 12 hour day. But he's not naive. This is not 10,000 lines of bug-filled crap.
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"Never used? Or never had to?". "The plausibly deniable implication being FP languages are safer, and C++ is ridden with bugs.". "I'm onto you Dmitriixter.". ~ Doakes (Senior C++ dev)
I had been programming in FP languages for 10 years and never used a debugger. Today, I used debugger in C++ for the first time and found a bug in 2 minutes.
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Zig feels more like C and less like C++. That's a good thing. Learning.
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"I'm still standing," by Elton John.
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I'm cautiously excited about Zig. Specifically because it apparently compiles faster than Rust. Does not matter how safe Rust is, and how much I like its features, the pain of slow compilations is horrible for productivity. This is why I also use OCaml instead of Haskell.
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Probably a good time for me to seriously start learning about LLVM. Initially I wanted to compile down to C/Fortran, and although it is easier to accomplish, it also prevents us from using features like zero sized structs, modules, etc. for our language. Link to tutorial below.
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Trying to implement block expressions like Rust/OCaml. I don't have a scoped environment, so I should probably work on scopes first. Not sure if it will be efficient, but I'm thinking of copying the environment when we enter a new block scope, and discarding it on exit.
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Implemented expression based return few days ago. It works on a function level, but I want to make it more generic, like Rust/OCaml, so all braces/blocks {} are treated as expressions.
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