🎩 New Feature: Chart from Group By with Card "Magic Wand"

🪄 When selected it proposes all possible charts that can be created from the Group By's output.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10yP7ZRyjIs

👋 Hi, all! This is my first post on Alpha here, so I want to establish a little bit of context. (The next posts will be shorter.)

Alpha—a programming language for extensible systems (and hopefully malleable ones in the future). I imagine it as something in between of Julia, Emacs Lisp, and Smalltalk.

I’ve been working on it for a month now, so it’s still an infant. It has REPL, user-defined types, multi-methods, and a print function, but not much else 😁

So far it serves two purposes:

• it is a playground for me to experiment with PLT ideas (multi-methods, JIT, gradual typing, etc)
• it allows me to gain actual experience implementing languages (my problem is that I have too much knowledge and too little practice)

This week I was adding a garbage collector. It was tougher than I expected, but I got it working with the host language. The compiler still needs to be modified to produce the compatible code, so that’s the focus of the next week.

Here is a larger update for this week with memory layout images and some tips on debugging GC:

https://www.alexeyshmalko.com/alpha-3/