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Languages, and about languages, on the BEAM

Why Do ML on the Erlang VM? | Jun 2023

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I thought this was a call for Standard ML or something a rather on the Erlang VM.

(I really enjoyed this article though!)

As far as I know theres a few implementations of ML like languages on the Erlang VM

https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages

caramel and alpaca are worth checking out.

Gleam doesn't look like a ML lang but has a lot of the same semantics of a ML lang

Erlang: The coding language that finance forgot | Feb 2023

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Have I got a link for you!

https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages

See you down the rabbit hole!

Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly | Nov 2022

Elixir, LFE, etc. seem to work fine for the people who enjoy them.

https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages

LFE is Virding's himself, and has been around for longer than Erlang has been popular: Robert Virding - LFE - a lisp flavour on the Erlang VM (Lambda Days 2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br2KY12LB2w

Edit: Implementing Languages on the BEAM - Robert Virding - London Erlang User Group

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm0mbQbc9Kc

Elixir 1.9 | Jun 2019

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I think you might find one that suits your needs in this list

https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages

A meta approach to implementing programming languages (2018) | Feb 2019

Some links worth mentioning

https://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/

https://beautifulracket.com/

https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/type-safe-builders.htm...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANTLR

https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages