👨‍🔬Alpha

Alpha is a newborn programming language for extensible software.

It serves two purposes:

1. It’s a platform for me to experiment with programming languages ideas.

2. It’s a project for me to gain experience building languages.

Posts in series

• Alpha #1: a newborn programming language for extensible systems

• Alpha #2: multi-methods, type hierarchy, and dot desugaring

• Alpha #3: dynamically-sized types and almost-finished garbage collection

• Alpha #4: garbage collection and golden testing

• Alpha #5: Compiling with Continuations

• Alpha #6: Compiling with Continuations, continued

• Alpha #7: Compiling without Continuations

• Alpha #8: Let bindings and recovery from HIR refactoring