Tulip: A Language for Humans
summary
A new scripting language is implemented: a front end with ML-like syntax, a runtime with Erlang-style processes, and an LLVM JIT that already emits x86. Key claims: it eliminates nil by using tagged sums (some/none/ok/error), uses tag-words and pattern matching for data, and puts all heap allocations inside lightweight processes. The JIT runs and shows SML/OCaml-class performance; the compiler and runtime wiring and full process semantics are unfinished and a stable release is more than a year away.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:25What makes Tulip special
- 7:19Basic Syntax
- 10:45Blocks
- 12:39Tag Words
- 15:40Null
- 16:11Nothing
- 19:46Abstraction Tools
- 25:48Processes
- 26:44Syntax
- 30:40Semantics
- 33:06Formal abstraction
- 33:52Runningtime
- 34:58Embedding
- 37:27Debugging
- 39:29Web Programming
- 41:26Compiler
- 41:52Design
- 42:04Takeaway
- 43:08Contact
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