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Felix - a fast scripting language

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Re: Felix - a fast scripting language

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Post by srean »

@nmcfarl thanks for resubmitting with a different url. I find the home page a bit baity but the tutorial page http://felix-lang.org/web/tutorial.fdoc is great.

Depending on how you look, it is C++ speed OCaML, or perhaps more correctly C++ in a fully type-inferred (unfortunately, nowadays almost everything gets called type-inferred. Hence the added qualification "fully"), ML like language.

It does whole program optimization. It uses a mix of lazy and eager evaluation strategies for speed.

I believe it can generate Python modules too, thanks to how well it interacts with C. The details have to be gleaned from the mailing list though.

Re: Felix - a fast scripting language

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Post by nmcfarl »

srean wrote: post #3

@nmcfarl thanks for resubmitting with a different url. I find the home page a bit baity but the tutorial page http://felix-lang.org/web/tutorial.fdoc is great. Depending on how you look, it is C++ speed OCaML, or perhaps more correctly C++ in a fully type-inferred (unfortunately, nowadays almost everything gets called type-inferred. Hence the added qualification "fully"), ML like language. It does whole program optim…

I was actually using submissions as a poor man’s substitute for HN search :)

I found the tutorial ( http://felix-lang.org/web/tutorial.fdoc ) to be a bit info sparse when I had no clue what I was looking at. Once I’d poked a round a bit it was much better, and started answering questions I was having - mainly how FFI is handled: http://felix-lang.org/web/nutut/intro/intro_01.fdoc

A very cool project.

Re: Felix - a fast scripting language

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Post by Yttrill »

asimjalis wrote: post #6

Out of curiosity: How did you generate the slides?

The webserver, which is written in Felix, translates a particular format called "fdoc" to create the tutorial and slides, including embedded colourised hyperlinked Felix and C++ code. The translation is to a mix of HTML5 and Javascript. This link shows the source of the first slideshow:

http://felix-lang.org/web/slides/language-overview.fdoc?text

All the documentation and layout needs a lot more work. [BTW: I'm the primary developer]

Re: Felix - a fast scripting language

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Post by Yttrill »

Toshio wrote: post #7

Love at first sight, but the build script is broken. http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=WzB5Jqyf

It works with this:

~/felix>python3 Python 3.2.3 (v3.2.3:3d0686d90f55, Apr 10 2012, 11:25:50) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin

and also on Linux with this:

skaller@felix:~$ python3 Python 3.2.3 (default, Oct 19 2012, 20:10:41) [GCC 4.6.3] on linux2

I have been told that the script fails if you use a slightly different version of Python:

  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/subprocess.py", line 906, in communicate
So it is an incompatibility in Python 3.3 subprocess module I think.

Re: Felix - a fast scripting language

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Post by bdcravens »

Yttrill wrote: post #8
asimjalis wrote: post #6

Out of curiosity: How did you generate the slides?

The webserver, which is written in Felix, translates a particular format called "fdoc" to create the tutorial and slides, including embedded colourised hyperlinked Felix and C++ code. The translation is to a mix of HTML5 and Javascript. This link shows the source of the first slideshow: http://felix-lang.org/web/slides/language-overview.fdoc?text All the documentation and layout needs a lot more work. [BTW: I'm the p…

All the documentation and layout needs a lot more work.

Yes, clicking links to get a small page of content to only find another link to click .. gets old really fast. (Old as in it feels like the Java documentation circa 2001)

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