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A static, type inferred and embeddable language written in Rust.

14 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 4 stories, 10 comments · first 2017-07-07 · latest 2025-09-17

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  1. Not to be confused with gluon the embbedable language in Rust: https://github.com/gluon-lang/gluon
    comment by huevosabio · 2025-09-17 · in Gluon: a GPU programming language based on the same compiler stack as Triton
  2. …but does have a Hindley-Milner-based type system and embeds pretty seamlessly in a Rust program. https://github.com/gluon-lang/gluon
    comment by tadfisher · 2025-05-27 · in Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's two new Rust-based type checkers
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    Gluon: A static, type inferred and embeddable language written in Rust
    story by christophilus · 2022-04-16 · 0 comments
  4. …[1]. Not sure if these are still active, or if another competitor showed up in meantime. ___ [0] https://github.com/gluon-lang/gluon [1] https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/dyon
    comment by riidom · 2022-03-28 · in Fornjot – The world needs another CAD program
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    Gluon: A static, type inferred and embeddable language written in Rust
    story by fish45 · 2021-01-02 · 1 comment
  6. …seamless Rust interop. Just a matter of effort! [0] https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/dyon [1] https://github.com/gluon-lang/gluon [2] https://github.com/mun-lang/mun [3] https://www.assemblyscript.org/
    comment by aidanhs · 2020-09-21 · in Why Not Rust?
  7. …that has grown peace by piece. Switching to something more coherent like Gluon (also functional, https://github.com/gluon-lang/gluon ) would seem like a better approach to me. - Packages: The quality can be very hit and miss. I discovered…
    comment by the_duke · 2020-01-10 · in Home in Nix – dotfile management
  8. …future. Two other languages to check out are Dyon, https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/dyon Gluon, https://github.com/gluon-lang/gluon
    comment by sitkack · 2019-10-06 · in Mun Programming Language
  9. …time I've built anything more complex than a toy interpreter. Interesting material here: Gluon https://github.com/gluon-lang/gluon/ https://pliniker.github.io/post/dispatchers/ https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=8fc08d2c9980aaee363d2f7842e...…
    comment by jashmatthews · 2018-08-04 · in Build a VM step by step with Rust
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    Gluon – A static, type-inferred and embeddable language written in Rust
    story by Lapz · 2018-06-22 · 94 comments
  11. Gluon is also a language built on Rust: https://github.com/gluon-lang/gluon
    comment by joshsharp · 2018-06-12 · in Gluon – A configurable and small virtual machine which runs Erlang BEAM bytecode
  12. …AoT subsets of a program, completely escaping the garbage collector. This would be like Terra++ [1] https://github.com/gluon-lang/gluon [2] https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/dyon [3] http://terralang.org/ [4]…
    comment by nerpderp83 · 2017-10-30 · in Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity
  13. …also the Gluon language [1] and, as someone below mentioned, this [2] enterprise mobile thing. [1]: https://github.com/gluon-lang/gluon [2]: http://gluonhq.com/
    comment by mikebenfield · 2017-10-12 · in Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft
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    Gluon programming language – alternative to Lua, functional, statically-typed
    story by dgellow · 2017-07-07 · 0 comments