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Bril: An Intermediate Language for Teaching Compilers

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animal_spirits ◴[27 Jul 24 20:43 UTC] No.41089201[source]▶
Python started out as a language for teaching programming and evolved into what is now one of the most used languages in the world for all sorts of use cases. I wonder if Bril could follow the same trajectory, becoming the common language for creating compilers
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1. mrkeen ◴[27 Jul 24 21:29 UTC] No.41089464[source]▶
One hopes we can have nice things from the get-go next time around.

Various languages have deliberately shunned green threads, lambdas, generics, and/or compile-time type-checking, only to try to shoe-horn them in later.