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Re: LabStack: Multi-language programming playground

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Post by pcr910303 » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 11:30 AM UTC

kwhitefoot wrote: post #10

From the title I was hoping against hope that it would allow me to easily call functions written in one language from functions written in another. Disappointed again.

You might like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20542258

MetaCall: Inter-language foreign function interface calls

Re: LabStack: Multi-language programming playground

#12

Post by 6thaccount2 » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 3:16 PM UTC

earenndil wrote: post #8

Proposal to add support for perl6, d, zig?

Doesn't Perl6 have a pretty extensive ability to call other languages like Python, Lua, Ruby, C...etc?

Re: LabStack: Multi-language programming playground

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Post by earenndil » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 10:27 PM UTC

6thaccount2 wrote: post #12

earenndil wrote: post #8

Proposal to add support for perl6, d, zig?

Doesn't Perl6 have a pretty extensive ability to call other languages like Python, Lua, Ruby, C...etc?

C, C++, perl5, possibly python (not sure there), and any jvm language if you use the jvm version.

Re: LabStack: Multi-language programming playground

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Post by kwhitefoot » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 6:27 PM UTC

pcr910303 wrote: post #11

kwhitefoot wrote: post #10

From the title I was hoping against hope that it would allow me to easily call functions written in one language from functions written in another. Disappointed again.

You might like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20542258 MetaCall: Inter-language foreign function interface calls

Interesting, but it doesn't quite pass the 'easily' test.

:-)