Felix - a fast scripting language

Re:Felix - a fast scripting language by srean on Friday January 04, 2013 @09:51AM (#5007822)

@nmcfarl thanks for resubmitting with a different url. I find the home page a bit baity but the tutorial page http://felix-lang.org/web/tutorial.fdoc is great.

Depending on how you look, it is C++ speed OCaML, or perhaps more correctly C++ in a fully type-inferred (unfortunately, nowadays almost everything gets called type-inferred. Hence the added qualification "fully"), ML like language.

It does whole program optimization. It uses a mix of lazy and eager evaluation strategies for speed.

I believe it can generate Python modules too, thanks to how well it interacts with C. The details have to be gleaned from the mailing list though.

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Re:Felix - a fast scripting language by nmcfarl on Friday January 04, 2013 @10:05AM (#5007887)

I was actually using submissions as a poor man’s substitute for HN search :)

I found the tutorial ( http://felix-lang.org/web/tutorial.fdoc ) to be a bit info sparse when I had no clue what I was looking at. Once I’d poked a round a bit it was much better, and started answering questions I was having - mainly how FFI is handled: http://felix-lang.org/web/nutut/intro/intro_01.fdoc

A very cool project.

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