Swift gets a lot of traction, good to see that. I hope they manage to get the ABI and core language features stable in the next release. Updating a large project always makes me a bit nervous and I'm tempted to blame problems on the migration even when it often turns out they don't.
Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
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Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
#82I dont think groovy should be on this list. It seems actively developed but is migrated to apache's archive and not apparently mirrored on github.
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#83Haxe was so promising but it remains largely ignored by the community. https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0dbj...
I'd love to know why haxe never caught on mainstream and what it's primary drawbacks are.
My anecdotal experience - not so much about the language itself but the ecosystem:
I was making a short evaluation of platforms for light 2d game/graphic development/prototyping. This being in the context of a fun project with very limited time - having kids and a C++/embedded day job and no intent to analyze core dumps in my spare time.
Haxe was on that list (together with e.g. lua/LÖVE and phaser.io/typescript) and I had high hopes for it. The number of target platforms would make it very attractive to transition from prototype to "publishable" game.
But what turned me down was the documentation and confusing state of competing libraries and target platforms.
E.g samples of a recommended tutorial were not working due to library changes (in very basic initialization functions). I found a solution but there was just too much friction .
So in the end, haxe lost in my evaluation because ... too much choice? I really wanted to have a predefined simple platform and just focus on gameplay.
If somebody has a recommendation for a haxe "starter kit" (compile target, libraries, docs, debugger/IDE/vim plugins ...) that allows to publish to all of desktop / html5 / mobile app then I'd be happy to hear about it. Maybe the next project...
Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can't practically bootstrap an interpreted language. That being said, I'd be intrigued to see PHP run using multiple nested interpreters from different language versions.
PyPy is Python implemented largely in Python, and it supposedly is faster than python's C implementation.
> PyPy is Python implemented largely in Python
It's actually a superset of a subset of Python and it's called RPython: http://rpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rpython.html
> it supposedly is faster than python's C implementation
Only if its JIT compiler gets a chance to trace and compile some code which is then executed often enough to make up for the overhead.
Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
#85Haxe was so promising but it remains largely ignored by the community. https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0dbj...
The trends chart is a little biased in German-speaking countries because Haxe translates to "ham hock" ... a popular beer garden dish :D
Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
#86One of the missing languages is Opa, which has more than 1k stars and has been on GitHub for years.
Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
#87Swift gets a lot of traction, good to see that. I hope they manage to get the ABI and core language features stable in the next release. Updating a large project always makes me a bit nervous and I'm tempted to blame problems on the migration even when it often turns out they don't.
The benefit of first class platform languages is that it doesn't matter how well devs like them.
Anyone that wishes to use the platform needs to either cope with it, or face the extra level of pain of development effort by not using tools supported by the OS vendor.
So with time at least Apple platforms will be a bit more safer, and enjoy an ML inspired language.
Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
#88Nim is very underrated. It's among the fastest, has a python-like syntax and can compile to C, JavaScript and other languages.
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#89Interesting to note that Julia comes in at #9 on the list, ahead of Scala, Clojure, and Erlang. I still think it's the most underrated programming language of the decade and hope that its usage continues to grow. I know it's touted as a language for numerical computing and scientific research, but I believe it would make a great general purpose language, perhaps even better than Python. Other than a few minor nitpick…
I'm not sure number of stars on gihub is a good measure of popularity of a language, especially when we're talking about number around 10k. I'm pretty sure Rust has more than 20K users, and Ruby and PHP have both more that 10K. Vast majority of these users though don't look through the C code of their engine and don't star it on github.
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Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
#90FWIW I recently got Lua up onto github, though development does not happen on github. https://github.com/lua/lua See http://daurnimator.com/post/153864402074/githubcomlua for more info
Also, Moonscript which compiles to Lua is developed on GitHub.