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Thank you. It's not a grift (or is that what a grifter would say - oh god I hope it isn't). I didn't want us to overpromise and become the next No Man's Sky (which has by now fully…

Oh no, we are on Hacker News. ;-) Hi, this is the yak shaving developer in question speaking. I was worried we'd get grilled hard over our slow progress, but I'm relieved to read t…

> Because I think it's a lot harder (both for you and for your users) than you thought at the time, and I hoped you wouldn't waste your time (and your users' time) on it. I believe…

unconst can't be the default because there is no way to re-const a value once it's been turned into an unknown. The most "automagic" behavior is to tie branch conditionals to their…

> That code does indeed automatically delete some entries from some collection, and it does use garbage collection terminology, but it doesn't appear to be full garbage collection …

S-expressions are not a special case of the syntax, S-expressions are the syntax. There are two notations, one is naked, python-looking, and one is traditionally braced, lispy-look…

I don't know what those are, but Scopes is designed to make it easy for users to implement their own meta-programming abstractions. It might be possible to build such mechanisms fr…

Hi, glad to hear you like it. I'm using Scopes to build a game engine called Tukan, which is for an ambitious game called Nowhere that is in development hell for four years. :-) I …

Regarding "unconst", we need to have a discussion. There are ways to make it implicit, namely by tying the return continuation of `if` to the constness of the conditional, but then…

stuff that I can imagine would be unbearable to read with an "everything is possible" 20 year old mind, but actually quite helpful when you're 35, nearing your wits end and the exi…

I'm sorry you've been running into trouble. The practical problem was that neither Bitbucket nor github offer a lexer for the language on their site, and the markup doesn't allow c…

do you have more information on that?