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Yes, multithreading seems to be a consistent theme among the comments.. so I should definitely look into that. Thanks for the comment. (I actually haven’t done much threaded progra…

Yes and the simplicity extends to function definitions too, since you don’t have to specify any type info. E.g. f :: { ; print(args) } Brevity is especially nice for inline/anonymo…

“IMO it's pointless to distinguish syntactically between iterating forwards and backwards” — I completely agree. It’s really a compiler-macro limitation that’s preventing me from d…

Also, if someone else has access to the member, meaning that there is an alias to the member, then the reference count should reflect that. Here’s an example: i :: int | 1 referenc…

No, there are both referenced-based and tracing-based GC routines that will deallocate short-lived objects. Sorry, I was just trying to enumerate the ways memory goes out of scope …

Seconded.

Yes very C-like.. One immediate difference is that in these C-like scripting languages there’s a split between definitions and executable commands. In Cicada there are only executa…

Yes I like this one. It’s similar and even more C-like, in that it discriminates between classes, class instances, functions, methods vs constructors, etc. (Cicada does not).

This one’s Brood VI!

Very cool! I’ve never used Kotlin..

There’s no multithreading so race conditions don’t apply. That simplifies things quite a bit. There’s actually no ‘free’, but in the (member -> variable data) ontology of Cicada th…

Yes there are lots of runtime checks.. unfortunately, but I always fork the time-consuming calculations into C anyway so those checks don’t really affect overall performance much. …

Yeah this is why the syntax is customizable.. maybe it’s not optimal. The example I gave was strange and I’ll have to change it. Not sure what I was trying to show there. The basic…

I know, I was dismayed to find out that there’s even another scripting language called Cicada. The name came when I was living in Seattle and missed the sounds of east coast summer…

There’s no multithreading capability built into Cicada. So a given instance of the interpreter only has a single concurrent state, and all C callbacks share memory with that global…

Good questions! The short answer to the first is that the language is interpreted, not compiled, so optimizations are moot. Aliases are strongly-typed which helps avoid some issues…

Thanks! I’m unfamiliar with Janet but I’ve looked into the others you listed. One personal preference is that a scripting syntax be somewhat ‘C-like’.. which might recommend a stra…

Should have replied directly —- thanks! That’s a great list..

To be more specific (see my general comment), I’ve used the language in two open-source projects: 1) a chromosome conformation reconstruction tool, and 2) a fast neural network gen…

Thanks for the references! Writing a language was almost an accident — I worked on a neural networks tool with a scripted interface back around 2000, before I’d ever heard of some …

I wrote a lightweight scripting language that runs together with C. Specifically, it's a C library, you run it through a C function call, and it can callback your own C functions. …

This website is for newbies to machine learning, and I’ve found the graphics really help to demystify what exactly the model is doing. I’m considering applying this to helping high…

I developed interfaces to call my company’s neural network generator directly from an application. Currently we have C/C++ and MATLAB APIs (and a shell script), and plan to add R a…

As a newbie I really enjoyed your explanation of the synthesis process and why everybody should Fourier-sum phases rather than amplitudes.

This project grew out of my frustrations with wanting to experiment with NNs, while a) not knowing which architectures to use, and b) waiting forever for training to finish using s…