Starting my own hobby language (again)

[@ch1n3du3]

i love this, was always interested in you covering Rio

[@contextfree]

Plans keep changing subtly over time, but I'm trying to commit to not rebooting again after this most recent reboot.

[@danielchincoyarodriguez9532]

I hope you can continue working on your language! You always have interesting insights about languages, I trust you could create an equally interesting discussion about design choices while creating this language.

[@gregorywalker1333]

best programming language channel

[@kurt7020]

Job requires 5 + years experience in Rio.

[@Amejonah]

YAY! \o/ I would really love to see a series out on how to make IRs, Name Resolution, Scopes, Desugaring, Linting, CST vs AST, LSP, Compilation... 🙏

[@jacobusburger]

I second this. A video series going over language design and development would be really cool.

[@LarryGarfieldCrell]

I would watch the hell out of that. Most tutorials go as far as "Yay, you parsed adding 2 ints" and stop, which is far short of useful.

[@officebatman9411]

Keep working on your language! I'll be very happy to see more There is just not enough PL content as good as yours!

[@gideonunger7284]

LETS GOOOOOO

[@contextfree]

You'd like to see me keep working on this project, then?

[@gideonunger7284]

@@contextfree oh for sure. Someone I know (Mario Zeichner original creator of libgdx) recently started working on his own language too and it's suspiciously close to what I was experimenting with. Following what people come up with is always a lot of fun ^^ Especially since he had some of the same issues and revelations I had haha

[@torarinvik4920]

Awesome!

[@cramble]

Context Free. Nod is close to the Welsh word "Nôd"(pronounced like how you said "nod" but the "o" is longer) that means "note"(both note as in to take notes and note as in a musical note).

[@samuelschwager]

Nod? Kane lives in death!

[@contextfree]

Didn't know that one, I have to admit.

[@stevenhe3462]

Beware of stack overflow using recursion for parsing! Rust does not do tail-call optimization deterministically.

[@Dominik-K]

Oh this sounds super amazing

[@ntgrv]

How does subtraction work, since you allow "-" in identifiers?

[@contextfree]

Currently planning to require whitespace around subtraction (and other operators). It's a hobby language, so I can have fun exploring ideas in both semantics and syntax.

[@stevenhe3462]

@@contextfree Yes, just enforce whitespace around them. Also solves style issues.

[@SabeDoesThingsChannel]

hey I am also making a programming language in rust. nice

[@dibyojyotibhattacherjee4279]

Why no more c++ videos?

[@contextfree]

I just go with my mood, but some c++23 might be fun. I'll think about it.

[@rcookman]

Can it be run/compiled?

[@contextfree]

Not yet. I plan a combo macro/type-inferencer/interpreter/etc system that might as well serve as an ordinary interpreter as well, but my main use case is to compile to wasm. Just not there yet.

[@rcookman]

Thanks, just thought i'd ask.@@contextfree

[@contextfree]

No problem. Thanks for asking!

[@albertslepak7963]

First comment :)

[@kaustubhken]

Please please please make video on ada programming language

[@eldyj]

someone still interested in this "ugly pascal" fork?

[@kaustubhken]

@@eldyj it's not ugly it's used in airplanes ships missles electric equipments military and it's strongly type very less chance of getting errors

[@contextfree]

I find Ada interesting. I'll probably cover it some at some point.

[@pnr]

​@@contextfreeAlso some Ada/SPARK please. Especially what makes it suitable for software reliability.

[@eldyj]

@@kaustubhken i meant ada is not that bad, but pascal sythax is totally not for me

[@solomspd]

I'd like to ask why you opted you use string interning? is there a reason beyond simply maintaining references to 32 bits? Am I reading this correctly, that the keys of the hashmap could have also been used to look up the values instead of the interner?

[@contextfree]

The interning allows for consistent 32 bits yeah. It also allows for fast string equality comparison. On the hashmap, are you talking about in the resolver? In that case, I'm more concerned with looking up the local id inside the module and the node where it's defined.

[@khanra17]

Intersting topic but Poorly made video

[@contextfree]

Yeah, my mic was having problems. Do you have any other specific concerns with it? I like to hear feedback from viewers.