Any ideas for a new language inspired to Python?

[Barry]

>> On 7 Aug 2020, at 23:28, Marco Sulla <Marco.Sulla.Python at gmail.com> wrote:
> Let me first say that I don't know if my post is on topic with the
> mailing list. If so, please inform me.
> 
> My idea seems to be very simple (so probably it's not simple at all):
> a language similar to Python, but statically compiled.
> 
> (Yes, I know Cython, RPython, Julia, Rust...)

Have a look at Apple’s Swift. It reminds me of python as I read it.
I have not done more the read the language reference docs.

Sadly it seems that it has not been ported to none Apple platforms.

Barry

> 
> Since I've not great skill in low-level programming, I'm trying first
> to define what I really want.
> 
> My core ideas are:
> 
> 1. Statically compiled (of course...). So if you write:
> 
> var a = 1
> 
> the variable `a` is an integer and it's value can't be changed to
> anything that is not an integer
> 
> 2. Use of smart pointers. Instead of having a refcount in every
> object, the language implementation will use a smart pointer as a sort
> of "proxy" to the "real" pointer. This could allow the language
> implementation to delete the object only when really necessary (lack
> of memory) and/or do JIT optimizations (move the object to a slower or
> a faster memory; compute and cache some object attributes, as hash;
> remove object duplicates...)
> 
> 3. functional programming under-the-hood. Users can write also in
> imperative style, but in the language implementation only the
> functional style is really used. This way *maybe* it's more simple to
> write concurrent programs without a GIL.
> 
> But I have a lot of doubts. The one that bothers me most is: compile
> to binary or to C?
> 
> My idea at the beginning was to compile to C code without creating an
> AST. Virtually any system has its own C compiler. Maybe it *seems*
> more simple, but it's quite more difficult?
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