Eiffel – Paolo Redaelli

1024cores – Distributed Reader-Writer Mutex

Paolo Redaelli — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:35:51 +0000

1024cores – Distributed Reader-Writer Mutex

This is definitively something that I would like to Eiffelize!

Name hijacking

Paolo Redaelli — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 10:36:04 +0000

I like the programming language named Eiffel, at least since 1998. Now I discover its name is somehow being robbed by a CI/CD project.

I simply had to let Bertrand Meyer, father of Eiffel know it. The easiest way I found is throught X (once known as Twitter):

Dear professor @Bertrand_Meyer, I’m sure you have been informed of https://eiffel-community.github.io Isn’t their name picking choise a little confusing, to say the least?

I also left the same message as a comment on his blog.

I know the name space of project looks almost exausted but coudln’t they conceive another name?

Yet another missing Eiffel 😢

Paolo Redaelli — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:21:57 +0000

On https://github.com/attractivechaos/plb2 there is yet another programming language benchmark. And yet another not having Eiffel….

In addition to C, there is Nim, V, Rust…. that’s very sad

7:26 on a RP3…

Paolo Redaelli — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 23:08:27 +0000

time ./install.sh
.....
real 446m11,935s

Well… wow!

Haxe – The Cross-platform Toolkit

Paolo Redaelli — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 11:35:10 +0000

Watabou’s Procgen Arcana is is a collection of free map generators for tabletop role-playing games and worldbuilding. Currently, it consists of six generators, all of them are in active development. They are proprietary but free to use and they are made with Haxe

Haxe – The Cross-platform Toolkit

Haxe is an open source toolkit based on a modern, high level, strictly typed programming language.

All those “open source” have the same targets that Eiffel had 30-40 years ago… this for example already have commercial, hefty “Support Plans”, starting from an yearly rate of 6000€ (six thousand euros).

One thing I think they got right is that Haxe allows you to compile for several targets:

JavaScript
C++
C#
Java
JVM
Lua
PHP 7
Python 3
HashLink
NekoVM
Flash (SWF Bytecode)
And its own interpreter

Liberty has C, and once had JVM. Ideally I wish to “resurrect” the JVM and add PHP (yes) and Python, or at least improve the interoperability with those languages.

Textual

Paolo Redaelli — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 11:26:08 +0000

Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.

Textual is a Rapid Application Development framework for Python, built by Textualize.io.

Build sophisticated user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal or a web browser!

Well, I just wish I could have it in EIffel….

Eiffeldoc: ANY

Paolo Redaelli — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 08:15:00 +0000

twin: ANY– Return a new object with the dynamic type of Current.

copy (other: ANY) — Update current object using fields of object attached to other, so as to yield equal objects.

Too bad that those Eiffel features, (function members) available in each and every object and variable are not available in Kotlin.

Iced Rust Toolkit

Paolo Redaelli — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 09:39:52 +0000

System76’s Pop!_OS COSMIC Desktop To Make Use Of Iced Rust Toolkit Rather Than GTK

Ok, yet another #GUI library.

Of course I hope they’ll be successful, but I wonder why they had to start another one.

I’ll keep an eye on it, it may be useful in the case we make LibertyEiffel interfacable with Rust

SpaceVim has Eiffel support!

Paolo Redaelli — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 10:49:41 +0000

SpaceVim, a community-driven vim distribution that seeks to provide layer feature, besides turning Vim into a nifty IDE for several languages (C/C++, Rust, Kotlin, Go, Python, Java and JavaScript plus others), it offers among the available layers one for Eiffel!

10 Powerful Python One-Liners.

Paolo Redaelli — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 19:59:00 +0000

I shall Eiffellize those, one day or another: 10 Powerful Python One-Liners. Python one-liners can be just as… | by Ishaan Gupta | Sep, 2022 | Python in Plain English