Project Status?

[lxsmnsyc]

I'm curious about this project's development status. Lys is a promising language, reminds me of ReasonML and Rust, and it seems that it is simpler than Rust in some levels. I wanted to use it for my WASM-related projects and now I'm curious about the usability of this language. Specifically:

1. Are there going to be FFI support? or like the ability to import foreign functions?
2. Support for generics?

[menduz]

Hi there! thanks for your interest!

1. Are there going to be FFI support? or like the ability to import foreign functions?
2. Support for generics?

Those are planned features, those will come right after the new compiler is ready.

The current status of the project is to bootstrap the compiler using Lys itself (https://github.com/lys-lang/lys-compiler).

In terms of progress, it is my intention and desire to maintain this project alive, I got married this week and I'm keeping my full time job, I couldn't allocate much time to Lys lately, time will be allocated as soon as it is available, I miss doing this.

I'm planning to test Lys in

• https://github.com/ewasm Ethereum flavored WASM (Blockchain)
• https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3-arduino Arduino (With wasm3 runtime)
• https://thegraph.com/ https://github.com/graphprotocol The Graph uses WASM to run subgraphs to query the Ethereum blockchain
• https://github.com/wasmerio/kernel-wasm Sandboxed kernel mode WebAssembly runtime

Among others..

In the meantime, if you have ideas for improvements and features you may want please feel free to contribute with issues, issues with ideas and PRs

[lxsmnsyc]

In terms of progress, it is my intention and desire to maintain this project alive, I got married this week and I'm keeping my full time job, I couldn't allocate much time to Lys lately, time will be allocated as soon as it is available, I miss doing this.

Congrats to your marriage! 😄
You have a full-time job, I get that a lot. Anyways, I'll just keep track of your progress, Lys is an amazing project, and I hope it becomes a successful one 😁

[sno2]

@menduz I gotta give you huge props for making the first language to finally use fun as an abbreviation for function 😎

[dumblob]

I just came across this language and find the effort quite interesting. It reminds me (semantically) of Passerine, Basil, and ultimately XL.

Do you think you'll find some time for this project any more? It'd be good to find some fitting use case (ideally a commercial one) to avoid bus factor of 1 and maybe make you happier by seeing more people working on it along with you 😉.

[menduz]

Hey, I'm flattered about you folks being interested in the project.

Right now I'm investing all my time and energy to Decentraland, and that requires all of it.

I intend to continue my efforts on this language, but it won't be anytime soon. I wouldn't encourage anyone to use it for more than educational purposes for the time being. I would also be happy to see people contributing and coming up with an usable language out of lys. If that happens, I'd be glad to help.

Agustin

[Zireael07]

Bump. I must admit I am intrigued by the project <3