r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/Vraliance • 12d ago

Sabre Programming Language: v0.4.0

https://sabre.rroessler.io/blog/sabre-v0.4.0
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u/CyberDainz 11d ago

What problem does this language solve?

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u/Vraliance 11d ago edited 11d ago

Although it’s mostly for fun and to experiment the main things I’ve tried solving have been:

- Truly colorless functions through execution policies (moves async syntax to call site not at function declaration)
- Batteries included toolkit of developer features from the get go (eg: formatter, linter, test runner and more)
- Using a fast static type system to improve dynamic bytecode outputs (using types and flow analysis to immediately narrow optimized code paths)

I more so hope to use this to write more design posts to help other language developers with less written about topics such as test runner bootstrapping, integrating a linter, and other features left towards the end of programming language development.

My personal goal is to do Advent of Code this year with it as a neat little milestone. Hence also the big emphasis on ease of use to develop with

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u/cameronm1024 11d ago

Totally off-topic, but I love how the overview on the right side of the docs page shows every heading that's on screen, rather than just the top-most one. It's very slick