digitalmars.D.announce - Kickoff of Drokue
- Manfred Nowak (16/16) Jan 03 2007 Drokue http://www.mjoelk.de/drokue
- John Reimer (3/24) Jan 03 2007 What are we to do with you, Mandfred? You're too late and too rogue-ish...
- jcc7 (7/35) Jan 05 2007 I agree.
- Charles D Hixson (23/44) Jan 07 2007 A reasonable idea, and it did say that it should be based
Drokue http://www.mjoelk.de/drokue is a rogue to the Digital Mars D programming language. The purpose of drokue is to accompany the evolution of Digital Mars D by decorating it with further elements. Drokue's vision is to explore D's capabilities to * be augmented by further syntactical constructs * serve domain specific adaptations like ad-hoc defined syntactical sugar * diverse into domain specific languages by building in support for compiler construction. * control work and information flow of programs by building in support for protocols The base for this spin-off was laid in the thread containing http://www.digitalmars.com/pnews/read.php? server=news.digitalmars.com&group=digitalmars.D&artnum=45660 Manfred_Nowak
Jan 03 2007
On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 04:09:27 +0000, Manfred Nowak wrote:
Drokue http://www.mjoelk.de/drokue
is a rogue to the Digital Mars D programming language.
The purpose of drokue is to accompany the evolution of Digital Mars D
by decorating it with further elements.
Drokue's vision is to explore D's capabilities to
* be augmented by further syntactical constructs
* serve domain specific adaptations like ad-hoc defined syntactical
sugar
* diverse into domain specific languages by building in support for
compiler construction.
* control work and information flow of programs by building in support
for protocols
The base for this spin-off was laid in the thread containing
http://www.digitalmars.com/pnews/read.php?
server=news.digitalmars.com&group=digitalmars.D&artnum=45660
Manfred_Nowak
What are we to do with you, Mandfred? You're too late and too rogue-ish! :D
-JJR
Jan 03 2007
jcc7 <technocrat7 gmail.com> John Reimer Wrote:On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 04:09:27 +0000, Manfred Nowak wrote:I agree. But I think Drokue is already at least as successful as http://gnu-d.org was. ;) http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/announce/3589.html http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/D/gnu/1836.html jcc7Drokue http://www.mjoelk.de/drokue is a rogue to the Digital Mars D programming language. The purpose of drokue is to accompany the evolution of Digital Mars D by decorating it with further elements. Drokue's vision is to explore D's capabilities to * be augmented by further syntactical constructs * serve domain specific adaptations like ad-hoc defined syntactical sugar * diverse into domain specific languages by building in support for compiler construction. * control work and information flow of programs by building in support for protocols The base for this spin-off was laid in the thread containing http://www.digitalmars.com/pnews/read.php? server=news.digitalmars.com&group=digitalmars.D&artnum=45660 Manfred_NowakWhat are we to do with you, Mandfred? You're too late and too rogue-ish! :D -JJR
Jan 05 2007
Manfred Nowak wrote:
Drokue http://www.mjoelk.de/drokue
is a rogue to the Digital Mars D programming language.
The purpose of drokue is to accompany the evolution of Digital Mars D
by decorating it with further elements.
Drokue's vision is to explore D's capabilities to
* be augmented by further syntactical constructs
* serve domain specific adaptations like ad-hoc defined syntactical
sugar
* diverse into domain specific languages by building in support for
compiler construction.
* control work and information flow of programs by building in support
for protocols
The base for this spin-off was laid in the thread containing
http://www.digitalmars.com/pnews/read.php?
server=news.digitalmars.com&group=digitalmars.D&artnum=45660
Manfred_Nowak
A reasonable idea, and it did say that it should be based
around D 1.0, which makes this timely. OTOH, there's no
indication of a direction. In what way is this designed to
differ from D?
The only reasonable extension that occurs to me is an kind of
interpreter version with dynamic objects. This is less needed
in D than in many languages, but it would provide coverage of
a part of the language continuum that D doesn't attempt to
handle. Currently this is being addressed by, e.g., PyD,
which links Python with D. I can see a use for a more
strictly D superset that made easy linkage to D. Several
similar ideas have been implemented for other languages, e.g.,
goo & Java. If you do this I would suggest that you carefully
address the problems of persistent objects, specifically how
to reload them without knowing the type of the object in
advance. (See Python's Pickle.)
That said... do you believe that you can manage enough support
to create a viable branch to do such? The D community is
rather small, and I'm not certain that it's large enough to
support a major fork. (GDC doesn't really count, as it
attempt to maintain strict compatibility with DMD, and shares
a part of the same code base.)
Jan 07 2007