Re:Play: Statically typed Forth, compiled to WASM
by Skinney on Monday November 23, 2020 @04:01PM
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Self-thought developer. Java, kotlin and Elm (fullstack) is my day job. Core contributor to Elm.
If you want to create a language that can run in browsers, you either need to target js or wasm. Wasm seemed like the better fit (i’m done with 53-bit ints), so I googled everything on that.
Read a book on GC (wasm has no such thing built in), read two books on Forth (after being intruiged by its syntax), Learned about compilers by looking at Elm source code.
I guess I’ve been around so many languages that it’s impossible not to form an oppi ion on what makes a good language, so once I knew the basics it was difficult to avoid making my own.
If you want to create a language that can run in browsers, you either need to target js or wasm. Wasm seemed like the better fit (i’m done with 53-bit ints), so I googled everything on that.
Read a book on GC (wasm has no such thing built in), read two books on Forth (after being intruiged by its syntax), Learned about compilers by looking at Elm source code.
I guess I’ve been around so many languages that it’s impossible not to form an oppi ion on what makes a good language, so once I knew the basics it was difficult to avoid making my own.