Myrddin 0.1.1: "Shame. Shame. Shame."
Myrddin 0.1.1 has been released. It is nearly identical, but compiles problem-free on all tested systems.
Myrddin 0.1: "The Sobbing Never Ends"
Myrddin 0.1 has been released. It's full of sharp edges and bugs. It's targeted towards people with a larger than average amount of self loathing. All parts of the language and libraries are subject to change, breakage, and unbreakage.
The 0.1 release comes with an amd64 compiler. The supported platforms are Linux, OSX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Plan9front.
To get started, check out the tutorial. The language spec has also been revised and updated. It now has fewer lies.
Additionally, our library documentation has been fixed and updated, and should reflect the state of our libraries.
Changes since the last version
Yes.
Tarballs
The release tarballs are on
https://myrlang.org/releases. The
tag for the release is r0.2.0.
Packages and Installation
Myrddin 0.1 has been packaged for supported systems. It is also easy to install from source.
From Git
Myrddin is a young language. There are regular fixes to the language and libraries. Therefore, it's probably a good idea to install it from Git. To install Myrddin from source:
git clone git://git.eigenstate.org/ori/mc.git
cd mc
./configure --prefix=/usr
make # gmake on BSD systems
sudo make install
Debian and Ubuntu
Myrddin has been put into a deb package. Here is how you can install
it on any Debian based distro:
wget https://myrlang.org/pkg/myrddin_0.1.0_amd64.deb
dpkg -i myrddin_0.1.0_amd64.deb
Mac OSX
There is a brew tap for OSX. If you have Homebrew installed, here is how you can use it to install Myrddin:
brew install oridb/myrddin/myrddin
FreeBSD
There is an external makefile for the ports tree. Here is how you can use it to install Myrddin via the FreeBSD package system:
git clone git://git.eigenstate.org/git/ori/freebsd-myrddin
cd freebsd-myrddin/myrddin
make install
OpenBSD
The port for Myrddin is in the OpenBSD ports tree. You can install it using:
pkg_add myrddin
Plan 9
Because Mercurial is the preferred distribution mechanism for Plan 9, there is a mirror of the repository on Bitbucket. To install it:
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/oridb/mc
cd mc
mk
mk install
This release has been tested on 9front. In theory it should work on any amd64 version of Plan 9 out of the box.
Future Releases
Myrddin is aiming to have releases every 6 months. Whatever features are ready by then will be shipped.
For 0.2, one major goal is to have a QBE backend. This will significantly improve the performance of our generated code, and make it easier to interface with C.
Libraries will continue to be an ongoing theme. Having libraries is often the difference between feasibly using a language for a project, or picking something with fewer wheels to reinvent.