About Context Free

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Context Free is about programming languages, including design, usage, implementation, and history.

As for me, my name is Tom. I started programming in Basic as a kid in the 80s. I find both computer and human languages super fun. While I'm a professional programmer, languages is a hobby for me. In addition to using programming languages, I also dabble in programming language design and development. I hope this channel is useful to folks out there!

https://contextfree.info/
https://twitter.com/contextfreeinfo
https://reddit.com/r/contextfree/
https://discord.gg/4yJM5MbcAp
https://github.com/contextfreecode
https://tjpalmer.github.io/languish/
https://github.com/tjpalmer/rio

Context & dynamic scope in Lisp, Jai, Odin, TypeScript, Haskell, and more

Code: https://github.com/contextfreecode/dynscope 0:00 Intro 0:18 Bash 1:49 Lisp 2:56 TypeScript 4:02 C3 4:19 TypeScript exploration 7:12 TypeScript classes 8:11 TypeScript implicit `this` 10:09 Jai 11:06 Odin 12:07 Koka 13:44 Scala 14:39 Haskell 15:41 Idris & type parameters

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Macros with type signatures?

At Muir Beach near San Francisco, thinking about static analysis and tooling for macros.

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Jai vs Odin systems programming languages (Non-spicy takes!)

Code: https://github.com/contextfreecode/jai-comparisons Thanks much to Gideon (https://twitter.com/Gidcheeen) for adding me to the Jai beta! Also to Jonathan and Bill for their great work! Also to each for putting up with me covering their work, and not necessarily in ways they'd individually pre…

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