Lambda the Ultimate

Orca (an open-source Rebol-like language) has been chosen as the default scripting language for the Syllable operating system, according to "The Rebol Week" site -
http://rebolweek.blogspot.com/

There have been attempts at creating open-source Rebol-like languages in the past - most notably, Freebell and R-sharp. However, both of those projects have been dormant/dead for some time.

Those interested in trying out Orca can find it here -
http://sourceforge.net/projects/urlan

To build it, you will need "m2", available here -

http://wsrebol.sourceforge.net

Orca now looks like it will become the most successful and most widely-used of the open-source Rebol-like languages. Good luck to its developer ("wickedsmoke") and the Syllable team!

There's been a lot of activity with Javascript generators lately, with project such as Google Web Toolkit or Links. haXe is an OO language with high-level features (polymorphism, type inference, structural subtyping, iterators) meant to program the Web. It targets three platforms : Javascript, Neko (for the server side) and Flash.

Instead of taking an approach to isolate a "common feature set", haXe has a common standard library but also give access to each platform "native" library. Some classes can be supported on several platforms by using conditional-compilation with platform-specific code. For example haXe includes some optional libraries that can be used for example to do transparent synchronous or asynchronous communications between the platforms (called Remoting).

haXe 1.0 was released a few days ago on http://haxe.org. The haXe compiler is entirely written in OCaml.

I don't think you should be allowed to edit your own post, with the possible exception that you can append to it, for example to correct a link.

I've seen two examples now in the past week where people have edited posts to substantially change what they say, instead of fixing minor typos. This really isn't good from a discussion point of view.

I don't agree with all Slashdot decisions, but I do with this one. Here's what they say about the issue in their FAQ:

Will you delete my comment?

In short, you should think twice before you click that 'Submit' button because once you click it, we aren't going to let you Undo it.