From: Winston Kodogo <kodogo@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] New Language [Myrddin] On Plan 9/amd64
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 10:48:31 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFiGbxi3A0vZ4Bj8Na6CUMqUWyvJy9Rst=CEuhqrpdurjXQCqA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150104005900.d146d56df0f6cdab930a0fc8@eigenstate.org>
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Hmm. Didn't Tolstoy write a short story called "How Many Languages does a
Man Need"?
On 4 January 2015 at 21:59, Ori Bernstein <ori@eigenstate.org> wrote:
> Myrddin is a language that I put together for fun, but which has developed
> delusions of usefulness. It's a complete reinvention of the wheel, from the
> ground up. Some of the major things you'll notice about it:
>
> - Type inference. Types are inferred across the whole program.
> - Algebraic data types.
> - And their friend, pattern matching.
> - Generics.
> - A package system.
> - Low level control over memory and such.
> - (Almost) no runtime library.
> - Self contained.
>
> For more details, you can look at the language website:
>
> http://eigenstate.org/myrddin
>
> Myrddin has been ported to Plan 9/amd64, tested on 9front. I haven't been
> able
> to get 9atom's amd64 kernel to boot on virtual hardware yet, so it hasn't
> been
> tested there.
>
> The compiler and libstd should build out of the box using the provided
> mkfiles. The libs used for mbld currently need either mbld or gnu make in
> order to build, or you can run myrbuild by hand. I've provided a script
> that
> does the latter.
>
> Almost all Plan 9 system calls are directly supported in libsys.
> As with Linux/Unix, only amd64 targets are supported at the moment.
>
> To bootstrap the code on Plan 9, the following script is provided:
>
> http://eigenstate.org/myrddin/getmyr.rc
>
> You can grab the script and run it as follows:
>
> ; hget http://eigenstate.org/myrddin/getmyr.rc > getmyr.rc
> ; chmod +x getmyr.rc
> ; getmyr.rc
> ...a lot of cloning and building happens...
> ; sam helloworld.myr
>
> For ease of hacking on Plan 9, I've added mercurial mirrors of the
> compiler and some libraries to bitbucket:
>
> http://bitbucket.com/oridb/mc
> http://bitbucket.com/oridb/libbio
> http://bitbucket.com/oridb/libregex
> http://bitbucket.com/oridb/libcryptohash
> http://bitbucket.com/oridb/libdate
> http://bitbucket.com/oridb/mbld
>
> There are a number of TODOs, of course:
>
> - Libdate needs to learn how to parse Plan 9 timezone files.
> - Libstd needs to get a smarter allocator for large allocations.
> - More libraries: lib9p, libdraw, etc... all need to be written.
> - A bit more thought needs to be given nicer, portable APIs.
> - More Plan 9 integration.
>
> And general work to get Myrddin to the point of day to day usability,
> int terms of faster binaries, more libraries, and so on.
>
> Still, if anyone finds this interesting/useful -- have at it. If you
> manage to do something neat, let me know!
>
> --
> Ori Bernstein <ori@eigenstate.org>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-04 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-04 8:59 Ori Bernstein
2015-01-04 15:13 ` Ryan
2015-01-04 19:45 ` Ori Bernstein
2015-01-04 19:08 ` erik quanstrom
2015-01-04 19:39 ` Ori Bernstein
2015-01-04 19:51 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2015-01-04 21:43 ` Ori Bernstein
2015-01-04 21:48 ` Winston Kodogo [this message]
2015-01-04 23:42 ` Ori Bernstein
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