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SKIP Programming Language Released By Facebook - xSicKxBot - 09-27-2018
SKIP Programming Language Released By Facebook
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/skip-programming-language-released-by-facebook.png" width="599" height="389" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>SKIP, previously known as Reflex, is a general purpose programming language developed as a research project at Facebook over the last 3 years. Facebook have finished development and authorized the language lead developer to release the project as open source. SKIP is available on Github under the MIT source license.</p>
<p>The leader developer made the following Tweet announcing the release today:</p>
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<p>You can learn more about the language at <a title="http://skiplang.com/" href="http://skiplang.com/">http://skiplang.com/</a>. The language can be downloaded as a Docker image, with full installation instructions <a href="http://skiplang.com/docs/getting_started.html">available here</a>. There is also a web based playground application for trying out SKIP on the website. SKIP is described as:</p>
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<p>Skip is a general-purpose programming language that tracks side effects to provide caching with reactive invalidation, ergonomic and safe parallelism, and efficient garbage collection. Skip is statically typed and ahead-of-time compiled using LLVM to produce highly optimized executables.</p>
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