General news about other languages/frameworks etc

AstonJ · March 15, 2018, 12:44pm

For general news about / things happening in other languages.

ShalokShalom · February 11, 2018, 2:54am

Seems like an alternative to Rust in some cases:

andre1sk · February 11, 2018, 3:28am

from project’s github:
“WARNING! This is a research project … Don’t use it for anything important!”
Hard to imagine the use case

ShalokShalom · February 12, 2018, 12:15am

Yep, I guessed that somebody will come up with this one.

To me, research/evaluation is an use case on its own, plus such sentences are often written to protect the author from annoying issues.

In principle do I mean that it is an alternative due its “no GC” strategy, which is quite rare.

You might like to add “in the future” to my sentence.

ShalokShalom · March 14, 2018, 10:34pm

What a combination

mkunikow · March 14, 2018, 10:45pm

But I assume usage of this is similar to sql lite -> embeded database
Where

Datatomic is made for cloud
Datascript is made to be embedded in web applications

axelson · March 15, 2018, 1:34am

That sounds very interesting. Makes sense given the scope of a desktop application. Would like to see some more examples of data modeling using it though. Has anyone here tried it?

ShalokShalom · March 15, 2018, 10:29am

Yes, they develop it to include it in Mozillas Firefox

ShalokShalom · March 6, 2018, 9:26am

This is a F# webframework, which is accordingly to its developer ‘heavily inspired by Phoenix’

ShalokShalom · February 8, 2018, 11:04pm

Very fascinating, if you ask me:

ML like Rust which is embeddable

gon782 · February 9, 2018, 6:31am

I guess we’ve now come full circle, kind of: Rust was originally made in OCaml (and actually was much more similar to OCaml than it is now) and now we have a very ML-like language made in Rust.

It does tickle the right nose hairs, I agree. They’ve made an impressive amount of work on this, so I guess it’s not just a toy either.

Cool!

ShalokShalom · February 11, 2018, 2:21am

I hope they adopt it for Amethyst, the data oriented game engine in Rust.

github.com/amethyst/amethyst

Scripting API

opened 05:49PM - 06 Aug 17 UTC

closed 11:20PM - 23 Dec 18 UTC

afonso360

diff: hard pri: normal

This issue is meant to consolidate the discussion around the Scripting API. I…t might be a bit early for an actual implementation to come out of this, however, starting a discussion around API design and goals should provide benefits when impl time comes. On a discussion in gitter we threw around some ideas @torkleyy mentioned he would like to have an alternative to the classic scripting approach. One of the ideas proposed was to have flexible scripting files that could be used as config files. > I already toyed with an idea for an alternative to the classic scripting approach. I wondered if we could just have pretty flexible config files, like we plan already for entities and other stuff of the engine. I mean, this does not conflict with scripting, but I think it would be worth to experiment with it, because looking at most scripts, these could be easily transformed into a YAML/JSON/whatever file. Additionally, these files would nicely integrate into GUI (you could probably generate a GUI dialog by some scheme) and tooling, the user is able to define custom ones (like configs for items, weapons, levels, ...). I still have to think about this idea some more, but I think it'd be worth trying it out. That said, I'm open for other ideas or for hearing situations in which you would additionally want a scripting language. I'm going to write up the advantages of this approach in a few days. With an example ``` // some_script.pseudo class MySuperItem extends Item { fn getTex() = "items/super_item"; fn getBlah() = "Blah"; } fn on_init() { register_item(MySuperItem); } ``` Or, as config: ```yaml # super_item.yml name: MySuperItem tex: items/super_item blah: Blah ``` --- @Xaeroxe and @lschmierer Discussed some ideas involving accesing components from a scripting language. Briefly mentioned is the feasablity of running the scripting system in parallel as an actual System. However this seems impractial due to the way `specs` enforces `SystemData` correctness on a type level. --- There are a lot of things that need to be addressed, however, I think we should start with: - Are we going for a traditional scripting api, or with something newer? - How important is it getting the scripts to run in parallel?

This is by the way, from where I know the language.

ShalokShalom · March 14, 2018, 10:36pm

One immutable map which makes a full database.

ShalokShalom · March 15, 2018, 1:39pm

The MLton project pioneered the “monomorphizing” compiler.

Normally functions like map : (a → b) → List a → List b produce generic code that can work on any list, but if you happen to know that it is used as map : (Int → Int) → List Int → List Int you could use a denser memory representation for the List Int, leading to quite serious performance improvements. Less indirection and less garbage generated!

jc00ke · March 18, 2018, 2:26pm

I think I’ve mentioned it before on this forum, but I think this crowd would appreciate Pony.

ShalokShalom · March 18, 2018, 2:34pm

Yeah, I just read their homepage (again), inspired by one post here in the forum.

Its very interesting how they mix OO with FP, especially since it seems that obvious that I ask myself why nobody else has done it before so?

Very promising

AstonJ · October 4, 2018, 1:51pm

Looks neat:

tmbb · October 5, 2018, 8:34am

Weak… Real active text is turning the trix editor into a collaborative text editor backed by Operational Transformation or CRDT implemented in Elixir and which communicates with the frontend using Phoenix Channels.

quazar · October 5, 2018, 8:49am

JIT in Ruby sounds interesting.
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/05/31/ruby-2-6-0-preview2-released/

AstonJ · January 19, 2019, 2:33am

Rails 6 coming soon…

Some nice additions there, Action Mailbox looks really handy:

Action Mailbox routes incoming emails to controller-like mailboxes for processing in Rails. It ships with ingresses for Amazon SES, Mailgun, Mandrill, Postmark, and SendGrid. You can also handle inbound mails directly via the built-in Exim, Postfix, and Qmail ingresses. The foundational work on Action Mailbox was done by George Claghorn and yours truly.