echo “G’day World!”Probably the most unique feature is that the language supports spaces in identifiers. So you'd have variables like "Option Portfolio Risk" or functions like "Calculate Estimated PnL". Visually obviously different from Python, but it gave me Pythonic vibes.
It's also nice that it supports preconditions, so you can specify the valid range of arguments etc. It has some kind of OOP support but tbh it felt bolted on (understandably).
But the most value adding, IMHO, is the DevEx and deep integration with SecDb. Say what you want about the DOS-like IDE and the old (20+ years old for sure, maybe 30+) language, but you can deploy your code SO easily into production, with guardrails in place.
Out of curiosity, I implemented a toy language (thanks to Robert Nystrom's Crafting Interpreters) that supports spaces in identifiers (https://github.com/rayfdj/gaul-lang) as well. Makes for an interesting weekend coding project, and it helps me understand more the tradeoffs that Slang designers must have gone through.
fn Calculate Portfolio Risk(Initial Investment, Risk Factor) {
let My Very Special Adjustment = 0.95
Initial Investment * Risk Factor * My Very Special Adjustment
}
and jam karet looks interesting; `if input ~= "yes"` made me smile.
i also liked the keyword replacement for multiple languages as well, that could be super usefull for children learning programming i'd think!
i tried your repo and it works just as you say; so cool
i may introduce it to some acquaintances who have trouble learning programming caused by reading english characters/grammar troubles
And even much older: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_%28programming_language%29
> This article doesn't use the name "Lisp" enough. The language with the best chance of lasting a long time is the one with the simplest syntax. That is Lisp...
Thanks for making this!
I did remove "The Perfect Programming Language" and "The Enterprise Programming Language" and a few others that weren't real languages. "Enterprise" is a great name for a programming language though.
"Value in Learning Yet Another" also seems like a great name for an esoteric programming language.
"You killed Your Own Mother How Could You"
I've moved the URL out of the link at the top, which seems to be helping for now.
(now I have to decide whether to go down another rabbit hole and fix that)
I won't add /thelang and /showlang unless we have a way of keeping them up to date, which we don't (for now) have.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32681150
Webpage using Pith instead of JavaScript to fetch HN Polls using the HN Search API
https://gabrielsroka.github.io/hnpolls_pith.html
Source
https://github.com/gabrielsroka/gabrielsroka.github.io/blob/...
Mint – language created for writing single-page applications - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36914888 - July 2023 (11 comments)
Mint: A programming language for writing single page applications - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22246615 - Feb 2020 (194 comments)
Mint-lang: a language for the front-end web - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17161533 - May 2018 (106 comments)
I didn't make those threads, so the title choices were mine. I'll do a proper Show HN with 1.0 sometime, maybe with can switch it with that then.
I considered the shorter name lang, but lang already has a meaning and I thought then in that world langlang might confuse people as to the actual name of the language, whereas since langlanglanglang is clearly needless overkill in a name, langlang and langlanglang would provide just the right amount readability and reinforcement as to the actual name of langlang.
Are these like permanent urls that we can use to filter posts?
This makes me thing about what other permanent urls/filters there are. Is there a list somewhere?
It didn't appear in Show HN at all. Perhaps because another user posted it as a regular topic just a few minutes earlier, which drops off very quickly (within minutes) - but I think the issue is wider.
For a while now, I've felt that the new topics stream requires you to promote the topic outside of HN to be seen on HN - sometimes by adding a "Discuss on HN" link in the blog, or on social networks etc. The problem is quite fundamental: the "Show" link gets a small fraction of clicks. The "Show New" (two clicks away) probably gets tinier, miniscule fraction of clicks. The intersection of people who are interested in the project and those who have clicked "Show New" would be very nearly null. So upvotes will have to come from outside.
Also, if you're ok with changing the title to "Show HN: The Tsonic Programming Language" then I could add it to https://news.ycombinator.com/showlang :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46599403
Could you add that too to showlang?
Your feedback on the other thread was very helpful - just the right thing to add, irrespective of HN visibility.