interesting; i especially liked the "Why Myrddin" section :)

i didn't see the obligatory 9P implementation in it; is there one?

On Sun Jan 04 2015 at 1:07:47 AM 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>
>
>