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Sunya programming language bootstrapped with custom VM, not Fortran

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The creator of the Sunya programming language, with assistance from Copilot, has decided against using Fortran for bootstrapping. Instead, they opted to build Sunya from scratch using a custom virtual machine and a seed language. The initial phase involved creating a deterministic, pointer-free VM, and the next steps will focus on developing a minimal Sunya core language. AI

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Sunya programming language bootstrapped with custom VM, not Fortran

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    # Copilot and I abandoned the idea of bootstrapping my new programming language, Sunya, using Fortran. Fortran is too unfriendly for bootstrapping. We decided t

    # Copilot and I abandoned the idea of bootstrapping my new programming language, Sunya, using Fortran. Fortran is too unfriendly for bootstrapping. We decided to create Sunya from scratch using a seed language and a VM virtual machine. We successfully created this VM which is our…

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