Show HN: The Lily Programmming Language

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This is an impressive project, particularly interesting is the Apache module. I did notice it was missing some things I might like, headers in for example.

Thank you! I've spent a great deal of time on it. As for that module, I admit that it's pretty bare-bones (so is postgres). Both were made as a proof-of-concept, to be fleshed out at some later point in time.

Header support was, at the time, something I didn't know quite how I wanted done, and was thus left out. I will, at some future time, add in header support.

I would also like header support. Perhaps during the next release (which should start some time in July), I can get around to putting that in. One of my original goals was to get Lily usable on Apache, and I've gotten far distracted from that.

That's understandable. I was mulling over your use of reference counting, and cycle detection with your mark and sweep scheme. Vala has a weak keyword to indicate a non ref counted ownership letting user manage cycles in effect. Otherwise I wonder how useful reference counting is in this case, your vm has the call stack ie the list live root references, as you know. Why not just do mark and sweep? May simplify the code a bit.

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