NAnateb2022·Dec 28, 2023Submission
Felix: Statically typed, performant scripting language with native C++ embedding
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The Felix Programming Language
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesIn addition to simplicity it cuts down on compilation time. You can checkout MLTon or Felix to get a feel for whole program optimizing compilers, they can do optimizations that are impossible without LTO and hard to do with.
https://github.com/felix-lang/felix
http://felix-documentation-master.readthedocs.io/en/latest/m...
http://mlton.org
In GCC 8 Link Time and Interprocedural OptimizationGithub is here: https://github.com/felix-lang/felix
In Felix: A compiled (to C++) scripting languageLink to github repo: https://github.com/felix-lang/felix/
perhaps in particular:
https://github.com/felix-lang/felix/tree/master/demos
The README and INSTALL files are also interesting; highlighting that Felix (claims to) produces very fast code/programs and that gcc 5.1 is recommended/needed to build.
Interesting looking language - I wonder how it ends up compared to Nim (with both the C and C++ backends). I suspect there's been more focus on performance on the Felix side - but it's hard to tell. The documentation section on garbage collection (for Felix) was blank.
In Felix: A compiled (to C++) scripting languageYttrill, I see that Felix is 12+ years old. I remember reading about Felix on Lambda the Ultimate a few years ago. :)
Over those 12 years, what are some of the biggest changes (in the language or its implementation) you have made? Where the changes mostly evolutionary?
https://github.com/felix-lang/felix/commits/master?page=135
In Felix - a fast scripting language