mrjbq7
Joined 18 years ago
Joined 18 years ago
We do hope to get native aarch64 support in the near future. Let's see.
The latest release of 0.100 was September 2024, and we are getting close to a new release which we hope to do end of the year or so.
https://github.com/factor/factor
The cross-platform UI that Factor has works on macOS, Windows, and Linux. On Linux, it unfortunately still uses a GTK2-GLext project for the OpenGL widget that we render into, but modern GTK3/4 has a Gtk.GlArea that we need to switch to using which will improve the compatibility on Wayland. However, it works fine with even the latest Ubuntu 25.10 release.
And of course, you could use other libraries easily, such as Raylib:
Please revert the "fix" that makes it so your demo is not seen at all.
$ cd ghostty
$ zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast
$ ./zig-out/bin/ghostty
Something like enum variants?
It was correct on the main Factor website, but my blog was using the old links before we fixed the macos rename.
I find Factor to have a compelling sweet spot of concise syntax, dynamic features, and (relatively) high performance. But in particular, I think we've done a good job with a few things:
1) Making the language very "clickable", so you can introspect and dig down into all function and type definitions.
2) Provide a lot of batteries-included in the standard library.
3) Make it super easy to accept contributions, there's a part of the distribution that is "extra" and has low barrier to entry and then we commit to keeping code working and promoting things to the main standard library when they are useful/documented/tested enough.