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Lingua Franca coordination language adds support for five programming languages

Lingua Franca is described as a reactor-oriented coordination language that lets developers define and compose reactive components without manually handling threads or message-passing middleware. It currently supports writing reactor logic in C, C++, Python, TypeScript, and Rust, while using its own model to manage timing and concurrency.

Developers revive POP-2 as 'Pop-2000' dialect for bootstrapping tiny systems

Devine and the author, working on Uxn tooling, have been reworking POP-2—a 1970s programming language from the Lisp era—into a new dialect called Pop-2000 meant to serve as a common language across minimal, bootstrap-friendly systems. The project stems from Devine's search for a high-level language to write a new Uxn assembler, paired with the author's long-standing interest in designing 'tiny compilers' that are easy to implement with little tooling.