On 09/09/2018 02:44 PM, Pjotr Prins wrote:

Dear all,

We would like to propose a devroom for 'Minimalistic or small programming languages with big ideas'. We think these are under represented at FOSDEM and minimalism still very much matters in open source software and computing in general. E.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimalism_(computing)

We are posting here to see if anyone else is interested in participating. Currently we have commitments from GNU Mes which is building a FOSS bootstrap from source using a 200-byte binary using a minimalistic C compiler, GNU Guile and Lua: all with big ideas. We would like to add smalltalk and perhaps a few others.

Computer languages targeting LLVM, the JVM and JS are perhaps covered by other devrooms. If not, we could look at those too and have them find a place with us. Our current thinking, however, is standalone programming languages.

Any feedback on this before we put together our proposal?

This sounds great to me, personally! I'm constantly on the lookout for the thrill I receive whenever I work with Lua, and wouldn't mind at all to learn more languages like that. I daresay there should be interest there. I would especially be interested in embeddable languages. Nick