[FOSDEM] A devroom for minimalistic programming languages with big ideas (RFC)

[Nikolai Kondrashov]

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