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by blitzprog 4952 days ago
"Crack aims to provide the ease of development of a scripting language with the performance of a compiled language."

Have you looked at the Flua project yet? It's pretty much this and much more. http://flua-lang.org/
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wbhart 4951 days ago
You are joking aren't you? There's not a line of documentation on the Flua webpage. The Windows download doesn't open on my Windows machine and I need a GUI to run it on Linux (which my linux box doesn't support). It also claims to be as fast as C, but a cursory examination of the source suggests it is entirely written in Python and Flua!
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blitzprog 4951 days ago
That's because there is no online version of the documentation right now. It's only available in the editor, it's an Alpha after all. Just because the compiler is written in Python it does not mean the Flua programs are executed in Python. In fact they can be executed in multiple environments and C++ is the one which is currently being developed, hence the programs _are_ fast. How come the Windows download doesn't work for you? It works on vanilla Windows, that's really strange.

Just stay on a constructive level. It would have been nice if you submitted a bug report on GitHub about the error you got on your Windows machine.

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antihero 4951 days ago
Locking people into needing a specific editor just to get the documentation is a bad move.
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blitzprog 4951 days ago
Yeah, sorry - I just couldn't find any time to write an online version. Will do it as soon as possible.
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