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alpaca-lang
alpaca
Erlang2016–2021
alpaca-lang / alpaca

alpaca

Functional programming inspired by ML for the Erlang VM

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Functional programming inspired by ML for the Erlang VM

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Observed mentions: 2016-06-28 14:17:42 UTC to 2021-05-06 14:14:55 UTC.

02462016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 2 submissions, 4 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC624
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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girvo·Apr 10, 2018
Agreed. BEAM is absolutely fantastic, and having other languages to be able to leverage its power can only be a good thing. I have high hopes for Alpaca personally, a super modern ML that targets BEAM. I think that in a similar way to how an APL-like would allow leveraging BEAMs building blocks in unique ways, an ML type system that’s aware of BEAM would allow for some seriously powerful, seriously correct programs. There’s a lot of research into algebras for concurrent and parallel processing, which slot nicely into ML-likes. https://github.com/alpaca-lang/alpaca/blob/master/README.md
In The BEAM needs an APL-y language

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