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Deca, an LtU-friendly bare metal systems programming languageThe Deca programming language is "a language designed to provide the advanced features of sophisticated, high-level programming languages while still programming as close as possible to the bare metal. It brings in the functional, object-oriented, and generic programming paradigms without requiring a garbage collector or a threading system, so programmers really only pay in performance for the features they use." The latter link provides a list of features that Deca does, will, and won't provide. Features provided include type inference, universally- and existentially- quantified types, and "a strong region-and-effect system that prohibits unsafe escaping pointers and double-free errors". The Deca language and ideas behind it are documented in a thesis, The design and implementation of a modern systems programming language (PDF):
The source code for the Deca compiler, decac, is available here. The compiler is implemented in Scala and generates LLVM bytecode. (The author points out in the comments below that this implementation is a work in progress.) The author of Deca is LtU member Eli Gottlieb, who back in 2008 posted in the forum asking for feedback on his language: Practical Bits of Making a Compiler for a New Language. There's some more discussion of Deca over at Hacker News. By Anton van Straaten at 2012-01-02 02:40 | Implementation | Lambda Calculus | Object-Functional | Type Theory | other blogs | 44384 reads
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