Also soon, Python: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0512/
Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
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Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
#102In the Top 10 there are only two languages which are not self-hosted. Swift with C++ and PHP with C. I know the reasoning for Swift being that it's just not practical at this point reimplementing everything in Swift, but looking at the others it seems to be the norm to self-host your language at some point at least. Is there a reason for this? Is it just a rite of passage or do the maintainers obviously enjoy using t…
> In the Top 10 there are only two languages which are not self-hosted. I don't think that is true. Ruby is written in C, Elixir is built on Erlang and Clojure is built-on Java. In fact the only two I know for sure that are fully self-hosted are Crystal and Julia.
Rust is self-hosted in that the compiler front-end is written in Rust, but it uses LLVM in the back-end.
Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
#103In the Top 10 there are only two languages which are not self-hosted. Swift with C++ and PHP with C. I know the reasoning for Swift being that it's just not practical at this point reimplementing everything in Swift, but looking at the others it seems to be the norm to self-host your language at some point at least. Is there a reason for this? Is it just a rite of passage or do the maintainers obviously enjoy using t…
I think many of the languages either depend on LLVM, C, C++ or JVM/Java. The only language I think not dependent on either of those is Go where compiler, runtime, GC, crypto etc are all written Go and some assembly.
Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
#104Also missing: Ceylon - currently with 191 stars
Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
#105Also missing: Ceylon - currently with 191 stars https://github.com/ceylon/ceylon
It has a nice homepage and good examples but what would a language like this provide over something like Kotlin? Also, I had to dig down into the homepage to find out that it compiled down to JVM byte code.
Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
#106Swift 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.
I program in a lot of languages that also have different styles (JavaScript, F#, C#, Objective-C, Python and PHP) and I find Swift pretty much ticking all the boxes that make it a nice language to me for the majority of tasks I like to do. I would probably use it also if I could pick other languages outside of Apple's choices.
So far from what I've tried F#, Swift and Python are my favorites depending on the task at hand. C# and F# are valid options for iOS and macOS development but I wouldn't take the extra complexity of another layer just to use a different language.
Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
#107Missing: Reason ( https://facebook.github.io/reason/ )
It's kind of an ocaml wrapper though but good point.
Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
#108In the Top 10 there are only two languages which are not self-hosted. Swift with C++ and PHP with C. I know the reasoning for Swift being that it's just not practical at this point reimplementing everything in Swift, but looking at the others it seems to be the norm to self-host your language at some point at least. Is there a reason for this? Is it just a rite of passage or do the maintainers obviously enjoy using t…
> In the Top 10 there are only two languages which are not self-hosted. I don't think that is true. Ruby is written in C, Elixir is built on Erlang and Clojure is built-on Java. In fact the only two I know for sure that are fully self-hosted are Crystal and Julia.
Pretty sure that most interpreted languages aren't self-hosted, for obvious reasons.
Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
#109Ruby's main repository is on a subversion server at svn.ruby-lang.or and GitHub is a mirror. See https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/community/ruby-core/ The wiki and the issues are also lacking from GitHub because they are on a Redmine server at https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ GitHub was written in Ruby (and Rails) so the issue tracker already existed and they felt it wasn't worth migrating it. I can understand why they don't…
The core team indicated they quite like the sequential numbering that SVN gives them. I'm considering building it into GitLab as an option if they would use it to host ruby :)
Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
#110No offense, but this list is stupid in its current ordering if the order is meant to imply anything. I heavily use rust, python, and go and have not starred any of the repos because I have faith the current contributors and don't need to helicopter over current issues/PRs. Stars are for following a project because you need to pay attention to breaking changes, bugs, and major feature releases. If you need to do that…
Don't forget that languages with high stars could be the result of marketing. The "project manager" for one of these programming languages held a campaign on its mailing lists 2 years ago to increase the number of Github stars from 300 to the 1500 it has today.