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Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by seanwilson »

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…

Can you elaborate more on the dependent type system? Is type checking decidable? What restrictions does it have to keep automatic type checking feasible?

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by wdanilo »

z5h wrote: post #68
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…

Great news! What are the hold-ups in going open source? How soon is "just before"?

There are no hold-ups really. We just want to release Luna in a form when you will tell "oh, that's a cool project I would like to contribute to" rather than "interesting, let's wait until it is usable". We are right now finishing installers on all platforms, making examples and working on new website. I don't want to set a deadline, but we work hard to make it just "around the corner" and a you can see, we're almost there :)

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by kowdermeister »

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…

How did you convince VC-s, that there's need for a new programming language?

(I'm totally not saying there's no need, but since it's highly technical and I probably would fail at it I'm really curious)

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by wdanilo »

toisanji wrote: post #5

I'd like to see how the visual representation of larger non toy examples look. Looks like a very cool project !

hi! Each node "contains inside" graphs of nodes. You can literally select nodes and collapse them into one, new "function". This way you just raise the abstraction level, just like in textual-sources, however in the graphical environment it is just more pleasant to select nodes than re-factoring functions in text :)

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by wdanilo »

dlitvakb wrote: post #3

I'm super interested in this project! I'd like to see how interop really works and how to get multiple data sources interconnected to produce amazing datasets.

Im happy to hear that. We do our best to realease it soon and I'd love to collaborate further with you then!

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by wdanilo »

pikachuaintcool wrote: post #43

Pretty bad name, I thought it was a typo for Lua.

We use the name for a long time now and we love it, however I agree it could be confusing. We failed, however, to find a better one.

I've got a crazy idea here! I know that HN has some magical powers, so if you have any idea of a better name for a dual-representation, functional, visual language, we'd be more than happy to talk about it and change it before the release (after the release it would be too late)! :)

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by CyberDildonics »

indescions_2017 wrote: post #75
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…

Really cool you chose to do an image processing demo with the "color grading" example. That is such a natural fit for visual programming. I could see Luna fitting into a video post-production or digital asset creation pipeline for games. The combination of a visual interface and functional logic could be used to create mind-blowing custom procedural solutions! Have you given any thought as to what media libraries you…

The thing there is that is already how image processing and compositing has been done for 30 years. Check out Nuke, Digital Fusion (which is free), Shake, Flame, etc.

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by kustosz »

tree_of_item wrote: post #25
gramstrong wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure what the idea even means, or if it really warrants a separate paradigm than OOP. Is it related to category theory? Frustrated that a 'new' paradigm got dropped on me with only a couple sentences of explanation.

It's bogus, they just wanted to use the word "category" to try and lure in FP enthusiasts.

I wouldn’t say it’s bogus, and there definitely wasn’t any malicious intention behind it, it’s just that finding a name for such a property is super difficult. As I’ve written above, it’s about having fine-grained control over the data (object) constructors. It turns out most words synonymous to “type”, “kind”, “category” etc. (as understood in the wide sense) are already taken by mathematical / programming concepts. We will, however, change the name, as it causes way too much confusion :).

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by xor1 »

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…

I really like how the Luna site looks. As someone who knows nothing about web front-end, how was it made? Custom-built? Template?
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