UNunwind·Dec 6, 2017
Great links, thanks.
Markup ate your Wren source link [1].
[1]: https://github.com/munificent/wren
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The Wren Programming Language. Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting 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 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
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5 sourcesI feel like a good place to share some of the resources I've compiled from HN regarding compilers/interpreters construction:
MOOC/Courses:
- https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/sp17/cse131-a/
- http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2016/index.html
- https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Compilers/...
- http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/
Blog posts:
- An Intro to Compilers (https://nicoleorchard.com/blog/compilers) and the accompanying Hacker news comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15005031)
- Resources for Amateur Compiler Writers (https://c9x.me/compile/bib/)
Other resources:
- Tweet (https://twitter.com/munificentbob/status/901543375945388032) by Bob Nystrom (works on Dart VM and creator of Crafting Interpreters) -
- Wren (http://wren.io/): another project by Bob Nystrom, a scripting language written in C with beautifu
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lly documented code (I recommend checking it out on GitHub (https://github.com/munificent/wren))
- Ask HN: Resources for building a programming language? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15171238)
- Mal – Make a Lisp, in 68 languages (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15226110)
Vigil comes from Munificent, the principle developer of wren, an unironic language that fills lua's niche (portable c, embeddable, no dependencies), with a nicer syntax: https://github.com/munificent/wren
In Vigil, the eternal morally vigilant programming languageHow does MoonScript compare to Wren? https://github.com/munificent/wren
In MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles to LuaHow does the feature set differ from [Wren][0]? Also, the syntax reminds me a lot of Go.
[0]: https://github.com/munificent/wren
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