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z92 on Oct 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Shen programming language

Any new language needs the ability to dynamically load and bind with C libraries (so/dll) and once that works seamlessly, then everything is done.

Otherwise it will enter the chicken and egg problem regarding availability of libraries.

riffraff on Oct 16, 2011 [–]

in this case maybe not so much. If I recall correctly shen has a pretty tiny core that is designed so it can be ported to existing runtimes, so for example a shen/js could just delegate calling libraries to V8 or *monkey, while shen/scheme can use racket's FFI etc

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