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  1. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    I'm conflicted about how I should implement UTF8 support for strings in my language, #ArkScript

    There seem to be two options:
    1. Every string is UTF8, thus every access to a char is O(n) and not O(1) anymore (have to decode the codepoints to count them). Length is O(n) too. That pretty much pessimizes all strings, even ASCII ones, but makes working with UTF8 codepoints easier
    2. Every string is just a series of bytes, as it is right now, and a (@ string index) returns a potentially invalid character (on 8 bits). Indexing and length are O(1), but we need a function to get the codepoints, like (string:codepoints str) or (string:graphemes str) or something else
    3. third hidden option that I want to avoid and that doesn't really count: introduce another string type that's different from normal strings. That's bad because the C++ API will be impacted, and the internals will need to handle all the different string types

    At first, I thought option 1 was better because then everything is easy, since the language is high-level. But now I lean toward option 2 because UTF8 support won't hinder the performance of programs that don't need it, and doing such a thing should be intentional

    #pldev

    #arkscript #pldev
  2. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    I'm conflicted about how I should implement UTF8 support for strings in my language, #ArkScript

    There seem to be two options:
    1. Every string is UTF8, thus every access to a char is O(n) and not O(1) anymore (have to decode the codepoints to count them). Length is O(n) too. That pretty much pessimizes all strings, even ASCII ones, but makes working with UTF8 codepoints easier
    2. Every string is just a series of bytes, as it is right now, and a (@ string index) returns a potentially invalid character (on 8 bits). Indexing and length are O(1), but we need a function to get the codepoints, like (string:codepoints str) or (string:graphemes str) or something else
    3. third hidden option that I want to avoid and that doesn't really count: introduce another string type that's different from normal strings. That's bad because the C++ API will be impacted, and the internals will need to handle all the different string types

    At first, I thought option 1 was better because then everything is easy, since the language is high-level. But now I lean toward option 2 because UTF8 support won't hinder the performance of programs that don't need it, and doing such a thing should be intentional

    #pldev

    #arkscript #pldev
  3. Lexy Plt @lexplt ·

    I'm conflicted about how I should implement UTF8 support for strings in my language,

    There seem to be two options:
    1. Every string is UTF8, thus every access to a char is O(n) and not O(1) anymore (have to decode the codepoints to count them). Length is O(n) too. That pretty much pessimizes all strings, even ASCII ones, but makes working with UTF8 codepoints easier
    2. Every string is just a series of bytes, as it is right now, and a (@ string index) returns a potentially invalid character (on 8 bits). Indexing and length are O(1), but we need a function to get the codepoints, like (string:codepoints str) or (string:graphemes str) or something else
    3. third hidden option that I want to avoid and that doesn't really count: introduce another string type that's different from normal strings. That's bad because the C++ API will be impacted, and the internals will need to handle all the different string types

    At first, I thought option 1 was better because then everything is easy, since the language is high-level. But now I lean toward option 2 because UTF8 support won't hinder the performance of programs that don't need it, and doing such a thing should be intentional

    #arkscript #pldev
  4. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    I'm conflicted about how I should implement UTF8 support for strings in my language, #ArkScript

    There seem to be two options:
    1. Every string is UTF8, thus every access to a char is O(n) and not O(1) anymore (have to decode the codepoints to count them). Length is O(n) too. That pretty much pessimizes all strings, even ASCII ones, but makes working with UTF8 codepoints easier
    2. Every string is just a series of bytes, as it is right now, and a (@ string index) returns a potentially invalid character (on 8 bits). Indexing and length are O(1), but we need a function to get the codepoints, like (string:codepoints str) or (string:graphemes str) or something else
    3. third hidden option that I want to avoid and that doesn't really count: introduce another string type that's different from normal strings. That's bad because the C++ API will be impacted, and the internals will need to handle all the different string types

    At first, I thought option 1 was better because then everything is easy, since the language is high-level. But now I lean toward option 2 because UTF8 support won't hinder the performance of programs that don't need it, and doing such a thing should be intentional

    #pldev

    #arkscript #pldev
  5. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    Someone wrote a #discord api client library using #ArkScript 🤯

    github.com/4surix/arkscord

    #discord #arkscript
  6. Lexy Plt @lexplt ·

    Someone wrote a api client library using 🤯

    github.com/4surix/arkscord

    #discord #arkscript
  7. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    Someone wrote a #discord api client library using #ArkScript 🤯

    github.com/4surix/arkscord

    #discord #arkscript
  8. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    I don’t know what happened, but #ArkScript got faster than python and slower than Lua, at the same time.

    The benchmarks all run on the same machine and the languages versions are fixed.

    What the hell

    #arkscript
  9. Lexy Plt @lexplt ·

    I don’t know what happened, but got faster than python and slower than Lua, at the same time.

    The benchmarks all run on the same machine and the languages versions are fixed.

    What the hell

    #arkscript
  10. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    I don’t know what happened, but #ArkScript got faster than python and slower than Lua, at the same time.

    The benchmarks all run on the same machine and the languages versions are fixed.

    What the hell

    #arkscript
  11. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    Hey everyone, I'm trying to implement a "slice" function but I'm not sure how to go with negative steps

    Let's say we have (slice start end [step])
    And
    (slice alphabet 0 10) returns abcdefghij

    What should this
    (slice alphabet 0 10 -1) return?
    FWIW, #Python returns nothing for alphabet[0:14:-1]

    #pldev #ArkScript

    #python #pldev #arkscript
  12. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    Hey everyone, I'm trying to implement a "slice" function but I'm not sure how to go with negative steps

    Let's say we have (slice start end [step])
    And
    (slice alphabet 0 10) returns abcdefghij

    What should this
    (slice alphabet 0 10 -1) return?
    FWIW, #Python returns nothing for alphabet[0:14:-1]

    #pldev #ArkScript

    #python #pldev #arkscript
  13. Lexy Plt @lexplt ·

    Hey everyone, I'm trying to implement a "slice" function but I'm not sure how to go with negative steps

    Let's say we have (slice start end [step])
    And
    (slice alphabet 0 10) returns abcdefghij

    What should this
    (slice alphabet 0 10 -1) return?
    FWIW, returns nothing for alphabet[0:14:-1]

    #python #pldev #arkscript
  14. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    Hey everyone, I'm trying to implement a "slice" function but I'm not sure how to go with negative steps

    Let's say we have (slice start end [step])
    And
    (slice alphabet 0 10) returns abcdefij

    What should this
    (slice alphabet 0 10 -1) return?
    FWIW, #Python returns nothing for alphabet[0:14:-1]

    #pldev #ArkScript

    #arkscript #pldev #python
  15. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    Hey everyone, I'm trying to implement a "slice" function but I'm not sure how to go with negative steps

    Let's say we have (slice start end [step])
    And
    (slice alphabet 0 10) returns abcdefghij

    What should this
    (slice alphabet 0 10 -1) return?
    FWIW, #Python returns nothing for alphabet[0:14:-1]

    #pldev #ArkScript

    #python #pldev #arkscript
  16. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    According to my testing, embedding #ArkScript works well with low resources, as it only needs 1MB of disk space and 4.6MB of RAM!

    It isn't the tinyest but it isn't the biggest either!

    #TinyScheme sits at the top, with only 84KiB of disk and 3MB of RAM needed, and #Lua is close with 271KiB of disk and 1.9MB of RAM

    github.com/ArkScript-lang/embe

    #arkscript #tinyscheme #lua
  17. Lexy Plt @lexplt ·

    According to my testing, embedding works well with low resources, as it only needs 1MB of disk space and 4.6MB of RAM!

    It isn't the tinyest but it isn't the biggest either!

    sits at the top, with only 84KiB of disk and 3MB of RAM needed, and is close with 271KiB of disk and 1.9MB of RAM

    github.com/ArkScript-lang/embe

    #arkscript #tinyscheme #lua
  18. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    According to my testing, embedding #ArkScript works well with low resources, as it only needs 1MB of disk space and 4.6MB of RAM!

    It isn't the tinyest but it isn't the biggest either!

    #TinyScheme sits at the top, with only 84KiB of disk and 3MB of RAM needed, and #Lua is close with 271KiB of disk and 1.9MB of RAM

    github.com/ArkScript-lang/embe

    #arkscript #tinyscheme #lua
  19. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·
    CW: ArkScript quine and code golf

    I’ve been doing some code golf on code.golf, using my own language, #ArkScript

    And I found a fun Quine (program that outputs itself), without using io:readFile:

    ```
    (let _"(let _{:?})(puts(format _ _))")(puts(format _ _))
    ```

    `format` is using fmtlib under the hood, and it’s pretty handy!

    #arkscript
  20. Lexy Plt @lexplt ·
    CW: ArkScript quine and code golf

    I’ve been doing some code golf on code.golf, using my own language,

    And I found a fun Quine (program that outputs itself), without using io:readFile:

    ```
    (let _"(let _{:?})(puts(format _ _))")(puts(format _ _))
    ```

    `format` is using fmtlib under the hood, and it’s pretty handy!

    #arkscript
  21. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·
    CW: ArkScript quine and code golf

    I’ve been doing some code golf on code.golf, using my own language, #ArkScript

    And I found a fun Quine (program that outputs itself), without using io:readFile:

    ```
    (let _"(let _{:?})(puts(format _ _))")(puts(format _ _))
    ```

    `format` is using fmtlib under the hood, and it’s pretty handy!

    #arkscript
  22. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    People, we have a debugger in #arkscript

    arkscript-lang.dev/docs/tutori

    and it's more tested than the repl somehow (I had to develop a new kind of tests for this one, so that I can skip the prompt and feed it lines from a file)

    #arkscript
  23. Lexy Plt @lexplt ·

    People, we have a debugger in

    arkscript-lang.dev/docs/tutori

    and it's more tested than the repl somehow (I had to develop a new kind of tests for this one, so that I can skip the prompt and feed it lines from a file)

    #arkscript
  24. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    People, we have a debugger in #arkscript

    arkscript-lang.dev/docs/tutori

    and it's more tested than the repl somehow (I had to develop a new kind of tests for this one, so that I can skip the prompt and feed it lines from a file)

    #arkscript
  25. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    I’ve learned #arkscript, a language I’ve been working on for a few years now, is being used as a code gold language by people on the internet

    And they found bugs (hopefully it’s fixed now, 24 hours after I’ve been informed and started working on the fix)

    It is truly awesome, and now I can’t wait to go back to work on more features (the current one being adding a debugger)

    #arkscript
  26. Lexy Plt @lexplt ·

    I’ve learned , a language I’ve been working on for a few years now, is being used as a code gold language by people on the internet

    And they found bugs (hopefully it’s fixed now, 24 hours after I’ve been informed and started working on the fix)

    It is truly awesome, and now I can’t wait to go back to work on more features (the current one being adding a debugger)

    #arkscript
  27. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    I’ve learned #arkscript, a language I’ve been working on for a few years now, is being used as a code gold language by people on the internet

    And they found bugs (hopefully it’s fixed now, 24 hours after I’ve been informed and started working on the fix)

    It is truly awesome, and now I can’t wait to go back to work on more features (the current one being adding a debugger)

    #arkscript
  28. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    I used #ArkScript for the #AdventOfCode and it helped me improve the language as well as find bugs
    You can read about the whole adventure on my blog: lexp.lt/posts/arkscript_advent
    Some bugs were very dirty and I’m glad I caught them…

    #pldev #compiler

    #arkscript #adventofcode #pldev #compiler
  29. Lexy Plt @lexplt ·

    I used for the and it helped me improve the language as well as find bugs
    You can read about the whole adventure on my blog: lexp.lt/posts/arkscript_advent
    Some bugs were very dirty and I’m glad I caught them…

    #arkscript #adventofcode #pldev #compiler
  30. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    I used #ArkScript for the #AdventOfCode and it helped me improve the language as well as find bugs
    You can read about the whole adventure on my blog: lexp.lt/posts/arkscript_advent
    Some bugs were very dirty and I’m glad I caught them…

    #pldev #compiler

    #arkscript #adventofcode #pldev #compiler
  31. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    Since the Advent of Code, I've added about 50 new algorithms to #ArkScript standard library it seems
    And it won't stop growing, even if I'll probably be the sole user of the language, it's quite fun to put your own stdlib together

    arkscript-lang.dev/ (with a live counter of algorithms in the stdlib on the frontpage because I could)

    #arkscript
  32. Lexy Plt @lexplt ·

    Since the Advent of Code, I've added about 50 new algorithms to standard library it seems
    And it won't stop growing, even if I'll probably be the sole user of the language, it's quite fun to put your own stdlib together

    arkscript-lang.dev/ (with a live counter of algorithms in the stdlib on the frontpage because I could)

    #arkscript
  33. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    Since the Advent of Code, I've added about 50 new algorithms to #ArkScript standard library it seems
    And it won't stop growing, even if I'll probably be the sole user of the language, it's quite fun to put your own stdlib together

    arkscript-lang.dev/ (with a live counter of algorithms in the stdlib on the frontpage because I could)

    #arkscript
  34. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    Also, it means nothing, but I've done over 3000 commits in #ArkScript, and about 6.67 years of working on the project
    It brings me joy, because it shows me that I can do things and keep doing them

    #arkscript
  35. Lexy Plt @lexplt ·

    Also, it means nothing, but I've done over 3000 commits in , and about 6.67 years of working on the project
    It brings me joy, because it shows me that I can do things and keep doing them

    #arkscript
  36. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    Also, it means nothing, but I've done over 3000 commits in #ArkScript, and about 6.67 years of working on the project
    It brings me joy, because it shows me that I can do things and keep doing them

    #arkscript
  37. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    I've added some kind of fused multiply add to #ArkScript.

    "some kind of", because I can fuse 2 to 3 successive math operations in a single bytecode instruction, and this helps by removing useless push/pop the VM stack!

    Before: 7 push, 6 pop
    After (with 3 fused math ops): 5 push, 4 pop

    And it was pretty easy to code, as I have a somewhat decent IR optimization engine, I just had to generate a bunch of rules to fuse instructions together!

    #arkscript
  38. Lexy Plt @lexplt ·

    I've added some kind of fused multiply add to .

    "some kind of", because I can fuse 2 to 3 successive math operations in a single bytecode instruction, and this helps by removing useless push/pop the VM stack!

    Before: 7 push, 6 pop
    After (with 3 fused math ops): 5 push, 4 pop

    And it was pretty easy to code, as I have a somewhat decent IR optimization engine, I just had to generate a bunch of rules to fuse instructions together!

    #arkscript
  39. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    I've added some kind of fused multiply add to #ArkScript.

    "some kind of", because I can fuse 2 to 3 successive math operations in a single bytecode instruction, and this helps by removing useless push/pop the VM stack!

    Before: 7 push, 6 pop
    After (with 3 fused math ops): 5 push, 4 pop

    And it was pretty easy to code, as I have a somewhat decent IR optimization engine, I just had to generate a bunch of rules to fuse instructions together!

    #arkscript
  40. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    So happy to have completed at least part 1 of every #AdventOfCode challenge!
    I only had to give up on day 10 part 2, and there is no part 2 for day 12, otherwise I was able to do every single challenge using #ArkScript, my own scripting language, and it was an amazing opportunity to improve the standard library too!

    #adventofcode #arkscript
  41. Lexy Plt @lexplt ·

    So happy to have completed at least part 1 of every challenge!
    I only had to give up on day 10 part 2, and there is no part 2 for day 12, otherwise I was able to do every single challenge using , my own scripting language, and it was an amazing opportunity to improve the standard library too!

    #adventofcode #arkscript
  42. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    So happy to have completed at least part 1 of every #AdventOfCode challenge!
    I only had to give up on day 10 part 2, and there is no part 2 for day 12, otherwise I was able to do every single challenge using #ArkScript, my own scripting language, and it was an amazing opportunity to improve the standard library too!

    #adventofcode #arkscript
  43. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    I reworked #ArkScript type errors so that they show more information, and are easier to read!

    #arkscript
  44. Lexy Plt @lexplt ·

    I reworked type errors so that they show more information, and are easier to read!

    #arkscript
  45. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    I reworked #ArkScript type errors so that they show more information, and are easier to read!

    #arkscript
  46. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    I’ve released #ArkScript 4.1.0 with argument attributes, and noticed just now that I’ve broken the code formatter… it is tested, but what i have broken what specifically tested, because said formatter is very complex

    I’ll have to make a 4.1.1 to fix that, but hey new ArkScript release with an even bigger and better standard library thanks to the #AdventOfCode !

    github.com/ArkScript-lang/Ark/

    #pldev

    #arkscript #adventofcode #pldev
  47. Lexy Plt @lexplt ·

    I’ve released 4.1.0 with argument attributes, and noticed just now that I’ve broken the code formatter… it is tested, but what i have broken what specifically tested, because said formatter is very complex

    I’ll have to make a 4.1.1 to fix that, but hey new ArkScript release with an even bigger and better standard library thanks to the !

    github.com/ArkScript-lang/Ark/

    #arkscript #adventofcode #pldev
  48. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    I’ve released #ArkScript 4.1.0 with argument attributes, and noticed just now that I’ve broken the code formatter… it is tested, but what i have broken what specifically tested, because said formatter is very complex

    I’ll have to make a 4.1.1 to fix that, but hey new ArkScript release with an even bigger and better standard library thanks to the #AdventOfCode !

    github.com/ArkScript-lang/Ark/

    #pldev

    #arkscript #adventofcode #pldev
  49. Lexy Plt @[email protected] ·

    Arguments as references (const ref if we are speaking in #cplusplus terms) have been added to #ArkScript !
    When used with big datasets (eg lists) they can yield up to a 5% perf improvement, and having the attribute in the signature makes it explicit that we are using a reference

    I really wanted to lean hard on « no hidden behavior » and this will help tremendously, as well as the « mut » attribute, allowing users to mutate the function arguments (which are copies of what you pass to the function anyway)

    #pldev

    #cplusplus #arkscript #pldev
  50. Lexy Plt @lexplt ·

    Arguments as references (const ref if we are speaking in terms) have been added to !
    When used with big datasets (eg lists) they can yield up to a 5% perf improvement, and having the attribute in the signature makes it explicit that we are using a reference

    I really wanted to lean hard on « no hidden behavior » and this will help tremendously, as well as the « mut » attribute, allowing users to mutate the function arguments (which are copies of what you pass to the function anyway)

    #cplusplus #arkscript #pldev