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Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by gravypod »

wdanilo wrote: post #26

Hi guys! My name is Wojciech Danilo and I'm one of the founders of Luna. The timing for this news is a little unfortunate, because we are just before releasing Luna as an Open Source project! However, it's great time to answer some questions and give you a short update what has happened for the last couple months: 1. We've raised a seed round of $1M, so we can safely focus on product development and shortly on commun…

What kind of plots can you make with this? This has real potential in the big-data and scientific fields. Plotting is hard and if you can easily tie together many data sources and models that are popular onto time series and geospatial plots this will be a winning combo go scientists.

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by wdanilo »

Skunkleton wrote: post #7

Here is the snapshot from when this was submitted to HN about a year and a half ago: http://archive.is/V2VwE My question: what has changed? Has anyone addressed any of the fundamental questions that were posed last time this was submitted? Are there any concrete examples of how you might use this for general purpose programming?

Hi! I'd be happy to cover any of the fundamental questions you are refering too. I was trying to cover them last time, but if there is something uncovered, I'd be more than happy to fix it :) Would you be so nice and specify what are your concerns?

Regarding the questions, I've just put some small summary of updates on the top level of this thread. Regarding real world applications, Luna will be well suited (but not limiting to) to interactive data science, creating custom data visualisations, microservices management, rapid prototyping of any data processing networks (inlcuding IOT systems) and of course graphics or sound processing.

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by wdanilo »

sleibrock wrote: post #9
Skunkleton wrote: post #7

Here is the snapshot from when this was submitted to HN about a year and a half ago: http://archive.is/V2VwE My question: what has changed? Has anyone addressed any of the fundamental questions that were posed last time this was submitted? Are there any concrete examples of how you might use this for general purpose programming?

That's more or less what I want to know. I've been subscribed to Luna for a while but I haven't received any updates or news about it whatsoever. The Twitter account is pretty dead. Even the images on the website seem pretty sketchy since I doubt many of the images are actually real or represent features of the editor. I've pretty much given up on this ever coming out.

We are alive! I'm really sorry for keeping you waiting for so long, we've been doing our best to make everything happen in the best possible form and I hope you will be happy with Luna after the release :) I'd be very thankful for any feedback after the release, it would help us much!

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by auggierose »

wdanilo wrote: post #26

Hi guys! My name is Wojciech Danilo and I'm one of the founders of Luna. The timing for this news is a little unfortunate, because we are just before releasing Luna as an Open Source project! However, it's great time to answer some questions and give you a short update what has happened for the last couple months: 1. We've raised a seed round of $1M, so we can safely focus on product development and shortly on commun…

Sounds pretty cool. Looking forward to it. Don't rewrite the graphical interface again, though ;-)

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by kustosz »

jancsika wrote: post #13

Where are the node positions stored?

We store them in a separate section in the source file, which is hidden by default when editing. So a bare .luna file is a readable text file, containing some metadata at the bottom, which is not shown when editing with our editor. This way we achieve clear representation and full portability of the source files.

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by wdanilo »

breck wrote: post #23
Skunkleton wrote: post #7

Here is the snapshot from when this was submitted to HN about a year and a half ago: http://archive.is/V2VwE My question: what has changed? Has anyone addressed any of the fundamental questions that were posed last time this was submitted? Are there any concrete examples of how you might use this for general purpose programming?

My guess is they ran into problems with syntax. If they alter their language slightly to be an ETN, it could help. Happy to chat more if any of them are reading.

Actually we did not run into problems with syntax! The syntax we were presenting last time has changed only slightly. I'd be happy to chat more about it! You can grab me here or message me directly at wojciech at luna-lang.org :)

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by whowouldathunk »

TFortunato wrote: post #18

Super super cool project! As someone who does robotics, I'm super eager to try this, and to hopefully contribute to some open-source libraries for this. A lot of work in robotics involves software that maps to this style well (functional-ish, where data is being pushed through computational pipelines / graphs), and I think this could be a killer development environment for things like control systems, sensor fusion s…

> A lot of work in robotics involves software that maps to this style well (functional-ish, where data is being pushed through computational pipelines / graphs), and I think this could be a killer development environment for things like control systems, sensor fusion software, image processing / computer vision, etc.

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