Future of Programming Languages

Post by draegtun » Wed, Dec 03, 2014, 7:55 PM UTC

creadee wrote: post #68

david927 wrote: post #35

The future of programming should be one language for all layers of the stack, from the database to the model to the UI. I think that hints that it should be a form of declarative. And if it's declarative, it should be focused on managing state. And if it's a thin syntactical representation of its VM, instructions/code could be interpreted immediately at entry and be managed as state, so you wouldn't be working with a…

> The future of programming should be one language for all layers of the stack, from the database to the model to the UI. http://www.red-lang.org/ (a Rebol-like language) promises to do that. And perhaps right down to the OS (if I've understood it correctly).

Post by draegtun » Fri, Dec 05, 2014, 4:55 PM UTC

david927 wrote: post #72

draegtun wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep... Red can compiled down to Red/System or be interpreted (with JIT). Red/System can be compiled down to machine code, bytecode (for select VMs) and I believe Javascript. Red claims to be the world’s first full-stack language - http://www.red-lang.org/p/contributions.html

The problem is that it's still letting hardware dictate the terms. There should be a meeting of the two: the VM. Anything that compiles to assembly is doomed to be a reheating of C leftovers.