Luna Programming Language – a small, elegant VM implemented in C
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Re: Luna Programming Language – a small, elegant VM implemented in C
#2Neat! Out of curiosity how long did this take you to write?
Re: Luna Programming Language – a small, elegant VM implemented in C
#3It doesn't look like this project has gotten past parsing, since all it appears to do is dump an AST.
Re: Luna Programming Language – a small, elegant VM implemented in C
#4Another language that's basically Python 1.5...
Re: Luna Programming Language – a small, elegant VM implemented in C
#5Name clash with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11144828
Re: Luna Programming Language – a small, elegant VM implemented in C
#6Luna looked great a year ago, since its syntax it ever-so-close to ideal. If it has momentum now, I'd invest a lot of time writing bindings to popular C libraries, an event loop, and a web framework. But it's not functional yet, or probably ever unless someone adopts it. I'm a fan of tj's other work though. I don't see how he can pump out so many quality npm packages and the like.
Re: Luna Programming Language – a small, elegant VM implemented in C
#7Name clash with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11144828
FWIW, this repository is nearly 5 years old.
Re: Luna Programming Language – a small, elegant VM implemented in C
#8Luna looked great a year ago, since its syntax it ever-so-close to ideal. If it has momentum now, I'd invest a lot of time writing bindings to popular C libraries, an event loop, and a web framework. But it's not functional yet, or probably ever unless someone adopts it. I'm a fan of tj's other work though. I don't see how he can pump out so many quality npm packages and the like.
http://crystal-lang.org/ might be a good fit for you then. Or http://nim-lang.org/ if you're flexible on syntax.
Re: Luna Programming Language – a small, elegant VM implemented in C
#9Author here. Not sure why it was posted, but this (really old) project is basically defunct. I gave github.com/luna/* to the people creating the visual Luna language that was on HN recently. Moving it to my account must have caught someone's eye.
Anyway it was just a toy project that I never had enough time/motivation to complete. I was inspired by the size of Lua's VM, but deterred by its obscurity (and lack of inline documentation), so my original goal was to create a very clean and minimal VM.
Re: Luna Programming Language – a small, elegant VM implemented in C
#10Luna looked great a year ago, since its syntax it ever-so-close to ideal. If it has momentum now, I'd invest a lot of time writing bindings to popular C libraries, an event loop, and a web framework. But it's not functional yet, or probably ever unless someone adopts it. I'm a fan of tj's other work though. I don't see how he can pump out so many quality npm packages and the like.
I wouldn't get my hopes up :D. I just moved it from luna/luna so the other guys can have the org. Other than the one guy hacking on it a little bit there isn't any work going into it. Primarily because I'm really enjoying Go, so I don't have much of a reason to work on an alt.