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Re:Crossing the impossible FFI boundary, and my gradual desc... by munchler on Monday June 17, 2024 @03:08PM (#40709734)
I would also add Zig to the list. I certainly hear about it often enough on HN.
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Re:Crossing the impossible FFI boundary, and my gradual desc... by zem on Monday June 17, 2024 @03:39PM (#40710102)
elixir and gleam in the erlang world
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Re:Crossing the impossible FFI boundary, and my gradual desc... by bobnamob on Monday June 17, 2024 @10:25PM (#40713498)
Much less effort to build a language (without megacorp backing) if you're building off a battle tested runtime.

I'm absolutely not saying this to discredit the work that's gone into Clojure, Elixir et al, but it does lend credence to the idea of building for an existing ecosystem instead of bootstrapping your own (along with "seamless" interop as a first class concern)

If anyone can crack seamless interop between natively compiled languages to dodge ABI hell they'll earn a nice place in history

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