Programming languages for the Java Virtual Machine JVM and Javascript

Ateji PX

Robert Tolksdorf — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:56:45 +0000

Ateji PX is an extension of Java for parallel programs. It adds a || operator for statement and data parallelism and ! and ? operators for message passing. It is implemented as an Eclipse plugin that precompiles the code.

Ceylon

Robert Tolksdorf — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:39:32 +0000

Ceylon is a general-purpose, imperative, statically-typed, block-structured, object-oriented, higher-order language featuring a syntax similar to Java and C#, and a type system based on the notion of principal types. It claims to be a programming language for writing large programs in a team environment, being highly readable, typesafe, and easy to learn for programmers who are familiar with mainstream languages used in business computing. Ceylon has a full-featured Eclipse-based development environment, allowing developers to take best advantage of the powerful static type system. Programs written in Ceylon execute on any JVM.

Quixe: a Glulx VM interpreter written in Javascript

Robert Tolksdorf — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:39:47 +0000

Quixe is a pure-Javascript interpreter for the Glulx IF virtual machine. It can play any Glulx game file (.ulx or .gblorb) in a web browser. It does not require a server component; it runs entirely in the browser.

BiwaScheme

Robert Tolksdorf — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:36:25 +0000

BiwaScheme is a Scheme interpreter written in JavaScript.

Kotlin

Robert Tolksdorf — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:10:21 +0000

Kotlin is a statically-typed JVM-targeted programming language intended for industrial use.

fun4j

Robert Tolksdorf — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:33:27 +0000

fun4j is a framework that integrates major concepts from functional programming into the Java Platform. It also provides seamless integration of Java with Lisp coding, by using a lisp-to-bytecode compiler.

Javascal

Robert Tolksdorf — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:35:16 +0000

A free compiler that translates a subset of Pascal ISO7185 into bytecode for the JVM.

Virgil

Robert Tolksdorf — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:21:48 +0000

The Virgil Programming Language is designed for building robust, flexible, and scalable software systems on embedded hardware platforms. Virgil builds on ideas from object-oriented, statically typed languages like Java, providing a clean, consistent source language. Its compiler system provides an efficient implementation for resource-constrained environments.

Meta Programming System MPS

Robert Tolksdorf — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:59:35 +0000

The major goal of MPS is to allow extending languages to generate domain specific languages. MPS originally includes a ready-to-use universal language called BaseLanguage, which can itself be used to create programs. However, the right way to use MPS is to extend BaseLanguage and create new languages. MPS comes with several helpful extensions to BaseLanguage for working with strings, collections, dates, regular expressions, etc. In creating a language, you define the rules for code editing and rendering. You can also specify the language type-system and constraints. This allows MPS to verify program code on the fly, and thus makes programming with the new language easy and less error-prone. You can also define generators for their language to transform code in the custom language to compilable code in some conventional language. Currently, MPS is particularly good for, but is not limited to, generating Java code. You can also generate XML, HTML, JavaScript, and more.

MoonScript

Robert Tolksdorf — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 08:31:38 +0000

MoonScript is a dynamic scripting language that compiles into Lua. MoonScript provides a clean syntax using significant whitespace that avoids all the keyword noise typically seen in a Lua script. It also adds table comprehensions, implicit return on functions, classes, inheritance, scope management statements import & export, and a convenient object creation statement called with.