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Re:All about Modelica: An equation-based language for modeli... by pflanze on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @05:42PM (#23695133)
There's a project to create a language similar to Modelica as a DSL in Julia, Modia[1]. I'm not currently a user of either language, but saw a presentation at JuliaCon about it[2] and thought it looked interesting.

[1] https://github.com/ModiaSim/Modia.jl [2] https://youtu.be/hVg1eL1Qkws

Re:All about Modelica: An equation-based language for modeli... by michaeltiller on Thursday July 02, 2020 @07:55AM (#23712169)
FYI, it is by the same people who initiated the Modelica effort (Hilding Elmqvist and Martin Otter). I think part of the goal was to shed having to maintain a whole language (and the need to specify all the semantics details of such) and simply leverage a language that had macros.

I haven't really heard many updates on this in some time. I don't think it is necessarily a bad idea. But any effort along these lines takes a lot of dedicated people quite a while to make progress (as was the case with Modelica).

Re:All about Modelica: An equation-based language for modeli... by pflanze on Friday July 03, 2020 @09:13AM (#23723679)
> by the same people who initiated the Modelica effort

Thanks for pointing this out, I hadn't realized! I knew they were somehow involved in the Modelica community but not that they initiated it.

Re:All about Modelica: An equation-based language for modeli... by jpfr on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @04:53AM (#23699366)
That looks really promising.

But development seems to have completely stopped earlier this year. Anybody knows what's going on there?

Re:All about Modelica: An equation-based language for modeli... by john_a on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @07:06AM (#23700150)
The two main contributors are just busy in their "real" jobs. https://github.com/ModiaSim/Modia.jl/graphs/contributors