XTRAN is a software meta-tool that marries compiler and expert system technologies to provide rule-driven automation of software tasks involving a wide variety of computer languages. It supports code assessment, generation, transformation, translation, data/text analysis, and more.
An article introducing metap, a new meta-programming layer for Python, detailing its features like program augmentation, code generation, and structural introspection. It also discusses the benefits of metap over DSLs and provides a tutorial with examples.
The original INTERCAL-72 compiler source code, as both scans and transcriptions, has been rediscovered and is now available. The article details the history of INTERCAL, its influence on esolangs, and the process of getting the original compiler running on a modern system.
A new programming language called Amber, which compiles to Bash, aims to make bash scripting easier for new-age cloud engineers and beginners. Amber is designed based on the ECMA script syntax and can be compiled into a Bash script for easier and type-safe scripting.
