TMtmtvl·Nov 1, 2023
I thought (though didn't really expect) the reflective programming language Black (<https://github.com/readevalprintlove/black>).
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Kenichi Asai's reflective programming language Black
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 0 | 1 |
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2 sourcesIf you're interested in the work that led to this, definitely check out Kenichi Asai's reflective languages. The code for his Black language with reflective semantics is reproduced here: [0]
More tangential but also cool: this talk[1] by William Byrd mentions reflective towers, but jumps into a discussion of what he terms "relational programming". It's a demo of his Barliman Smart editor system: [2]
[0] https://github.com/readevalprintlove/black
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyfBQmvr2Hc
[2] https://github.com/webyrd/Barliman
In Collapsing Towers of Interpreters (2018) [pdf]