Pixie - A Lightweight Lisp with 'Magical' Powers

Explore the Pixie programming language in this conference talk from Strange Loop. Discover how Pixie aims to fill a specific niche in the programming world, offering features like excellent C interoperability, immutable data structures, fast startup times, efficient execution performance, and asynchronous I/O by default. Learn about the RPython technology that enabled Pixie's rapid development and cross-platform support. Delve into topics such as performance optimization, polymorphic functions, tracing JIT, lightweight threads and processes, object systems, FFI (Foreign Function Interface), and comparisons with Python. Gain insights from Timothy Baldridge, a polyglot programmer and the creator of Pixie, as he demonstrates the language's capabilities through examples like Mandelbrot set generation and STL code implementation.

Introduction
Performance
PiPI
Polymorphic Functions
Tracing JIT
Pi JIT
Eli Double Promote
Tracing
Variable Length Function
List Tracing
Lightweight Threads
Lightweight Process
Lightweight Thread
libuv
sequential processes
object system
rocksolid C
art python
the holy grail
import cosign
different libraries
C FFI
C Lib clang
Boosttype traits
Templates
FFI
LibM
MathGreat
Output
bytecode
import structs
import callback
prep callback
Python
Python List
Python Append
Mandelbrot Code
STL Code
Conclusion