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Re: Fusion Programming Language

#51

Post by NonHyloMorph » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 9:47 PM UTC

g42gregory wrote: post #7

What are the use cases? I am curious why Rust was not targeted.

I first thought you were going to ask about the usecases for the austrian fut lol

Re: Fusion Programming Language

#52

Post by andrekandre » Sun, Jun 28, 2026, 1:56 AM UTC

from the example:

  public class HelloFu
  {
    public static string GetMessage()
    {
        return "Hello, world!";
    }
  }

translated into swift this gives a class, which means i'm dealing with reference semantics (and potentially threading issues) and probably not something i necessarily want... i tried struct, but there is no struct keyword in fusion it seems...

Re: Fusion Programming Language

#53

Post by gr4vityWall » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 11:26 AM UTC

harrisi wrote: post #50

gr4vityWall wrote: post #33

It seems similar in concept to Haxe, but focused on writing libraries which are then called from the target language, rather than building your whole application in Fusion. Is that correct? How are exceptions translated to languages which don't have exceptions, like C? The amount of targets seems impressive, but I don't see anything resembling a standard library. Usually, it's in the standard library where diverging…

https://github.com/fusionlanguage/fut/blob/master/doc/refere...

Thanks for the link. Seems like it isn't ready for general usage yet.