Projects

Lua

Lua is a powerful, fast, light-weight, embeddable scripting language. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode for a register-based virtual machine ... [More] , and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping. [Less]

Code::Blocks

Code::Blocks is a free, open source, and cross platform IDE. It is being developed in C++ using wxWidgets. Using a plugin architecture, its capabilities and features are defined by the provided plugins. Code::Blocks is being developed under Windows and Linux. Users have successfully built Code::Blocks under FreeBSD and under Mac OS X.

The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure

LLVM is a robust system, particularly well suited for developing new mid-level language-independent analyses and optimizations of all sorts, including those that require extensive interprocedural analysis. LLVM is also a great target for front-end development for conventional or research programming ... [More] languages, including those which require compile-time, link-time, or run-time optimization for effective implementation, proper tail calls or garbage collection. We have an incomplete list of projects which have used LLVM for various purposes, showing that you can get up-and-running quickly with LLVM, giving time to do interesting things, even if you only have a semester in a University course. We also have a list of ideas for projects in LLVM. [Less]

CLISP - an ANSI Common Lisp

GNU CLISP is an ANSI Common Lisp implementation with an interpreter, compiler, debugger, object system (CLOS, MOP), sockets, fast bignums, arbitrary precision floats, and foreign language interface which runs on most UNIXes and Win32.

Boo Programming Language

A wrist-friendly language targeting the Common Language Runtime (.NET / Mono) with an extensible compiler pipeline, a syntax reminiscent of Python, and many other features (like type inference, syntactic macros, etc.)

Squeak

Squeak is a modern, open source full-featured implementation of the powerful Smalltalk programming language and environment. Squeak is highly-portable - even its virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk making it easy to debug, analyze, and change. Squeak is the vehicle for a wide range of ... [More] projects from multimedia applications, educational platforms to commercial web application development. [Less]

Racket

Programming language suitable for implementation tasks ranging from scripting to application development, and supporting the creation of new programming languages. It includes the DrRacket programming environment, a virtual machine with a just-in-time compiler, and various other tools.

Pharo

Pharo's goal is to deliver a clean, innovative, free open-source Smalltalk-inspired environment. By providing a stable and small core system, excellent dev tools, and maintained releases, Pharo is an attractive platform to build and deploy mission critical Smalltalk applications.

pyjamas

pyjamas is a port of Google's GWT to Python. It provides a stand-alone python-to-javascript compiler, an AJAX framework and library and a Widget Set framework that looks very similar to Desktop widget sets such as pyqt4 and pygkt2. With pyjamas, rich media applications can be written entirely ... [More] in python that run in all major web browsers. As of version 0.6, Pyjamas Desktop is now included by default, making it possible to run pyjamas python applications - unmodified - as native python Desktop applications. All HTML, CSS and plugin features are still available, even in the browser version, thanks to the use of browser engine technology. WebKit, XULRunner and MSHTML are the three current available options. [Less]

Pike

Pike is a dynamic programming language with a syntax similar to Java and C. It is simple to learn, does not require long compilation passes and has powerful built-in data types allowing simple and really fast data manipulation.