Show HN: Ironwall, a safety-first native programming language and compiler Hi HN, I have been working on a new programming language and compiler. Website: https://ironwall-lang.dev GitHub: https://github.com/3WyUFvDOdCbBw7gOZHwcfgKF/ironwall Why a new language is still needed: https://ironwall-lang.dev/en/motivation The compiler is written in TypeScript at the moment, and work on a self-hosting compiler written in Ironwall is ongoing. I would be interested in feedback. Thank you. |
"No syntactic sugar" and "no macros" sounds like a recipe for boilerplate that will be offputting for many.
Please consider adding some code samples to the front page of documentation, as syntax can be important to people.
I disagree with some other details, but I do think that a low level GC language that doesn't have some of Go's particular warts (particularly nil and error checking) is worth pursuing.
Writing the initial compiler in Typescript is an interesting choice but I suppose that won't matter after it's bootstrapped.
Ultimately it's hard for me to take the project seriously at such an early stage but I don't think it's fundamentally flawed. Good luck
[1] https://github.com/3WyUFvDOdCbBw7gOZHwcfgKF
[2] IZ1zPtHyDX5b3s7iLYS2zRoz5 @ proton.me
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[0]: https://github.com/3WyUFvDOdCbBw7gOZHwcfgKF/ironwall/commits...
Please verify your sources; the linked article is unfiltered LLM output. I assume whatever model hallucinated this has confused one person[0] with another[1] because they share the same name, but there is otherwise no indication that they're the same person.
[0]: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eWow24EAAAAJ&hl=en
Also first confused the name with Ironwail, the Quake 1 source port