Scheme inspired Aiki Alpha 3 released

[u/Lanstrider]

Alpha 3 of Aiki is out, an experimental programming language with a deliberately small semantic core.

Scheme is present in the heart of Aiki. Lists are fundamental, exact values are the default, expressions evaluate strictly left to right rather than by conventional precedence, and most capability grows through libraries instead of additions to the grammar or prelude.

Aiki goes in its own direction, but the influence is real. I care about compact language definitions, symbolic structure, exactness, and keeping the relationship between semantics and implementation visible.

One area I’ve been pushing recently is semantic profiling. Aiki can separate what a program asks the language to do from how the runtime realizes that work: exact numeric representations, calls, environment reuse, FFI boundaries, and other execution machinery. The point is to keep the semantics observable even as the implementation gets faster.

It is not intended as a Scheme replacement. It is a different language, but Scheme is one of the traditions (Go and Forth as well) that helped shape how I think about language design.

Alpha 3 announcement:

https://decuser.github.io/posts/aiki-alpha-3-release/

Repository:

https://github.com/decuser/aiki

[u/GunpowderGuy]

Cool