Re:Introducing Verve: minimalistic, static, functional language
by jameshart on Friday July 08, 2016 @07:45PM
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I know functional programmers favor purity, but it seems reasonable for a compiler to compile its source code in such a way that it can run somewhere. But then again, maybe Haskell programmers would be satisfied with the mere knowledge that their code typechecks...
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Re:Introducing Verve: minimalistic, static, functional language
by duaneb on Friday July 08, 2016 @08:35PM
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Don't pitch your software as dependency free if it depends on a certain architecture. There's no need these days with llvm. Otherwise make it clear you actually wrote an arch specific assembler.
Re:Introducing Verve: minimalistic, static, functional language
by tadeuzagallo on Friday July 08, 2016 @08:47PM
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Have you read the blog post? It explains why I won't use LLVM and says that the interpreter is written in GAS x86_64.
And I'm not "pitching my software", I'm sharing my side project, with a massive disclaimer that I'm doing it for fun.
Re:Introducing Verve: minimalistic, static, functional language
by duaneb on Friday July 08, 2016 @09:38PM
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Sorry, I shouldn't have implied you were intentionally misleading. I'm simply pointing out that by describing your language as without dependencies, you're just swapping out the explicit IR layer with a hard wired ISA layer (and linux abi), which is no less of a dependency.
I mean, GAS/x86-64 is cool, I enjoy toy languages as much as the next person—I just wouldn't describe it any other way than architecture-specific (and therefore useless to most people) so I don't have to click through if I can't play with it.