Re: Mixed Languages Programming

[Yasuaki Kudo]

I have just thought about dynamic "Rosetta Code" - some software that generates 
simple code for the target language, compiles it and tests the result.

It might be useful to learn a new language.

For example, in PowerShell, there is some awkward syntax for an array of array 
wherein :

(,(1,2))

If the preceding comma is omitted, it will not be treated as an array of array.

My idea is to write some simple code in the language one is familiar and let 
the program translate it to some other language, while using Guix to summon the 
necessary compiler for the target language 😄
 






> On Mar 14, 2021, at 10:30, raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 00:26:41 +0100
> Léo Le Bouter <lle-bout@zaclys.net> wrote:
> 
>>> On Thu, 2021-03-11 at 08:23 +0900, Yasuaki Kudo wrote:
>>> Hello!  
>> 
>> Hello!
>> 
>> I think you can use JSON-RPC libraries as modern alternatives to that.
>> Also gRPC. The "micro-service" paradigm.
>> 
>>> Is this a topic that is particularly interesting to the Guix
>>> community because of interoperability, mixing packages, etc? 😄  
>> 
>> I don't think so, not in particular.
>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Yasu  
>> 
>> Léo
> 
> There is an interesting Nix based project that has some actual good use
> cases for a common intermediate representation:
> https://publish.illinois.edu/allvm-project/
> 
> Chris Webber's talk on Spritely also had some good ideas for using OCAP
> in Guix to enhance security by a whole lot.
> https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/spritelygoblins/
> And that is basically just cross-language remote procedure calls.
> 
> Another interesting possibility is to run everything on WASM without an
> MMU. See the classic The Birth and Death of Javascript talk.
> https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript
> Of course that one is pre-Spectre/Meltdown, so take it with a grain of
> salt.