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Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by wdanilo »

thisjeremiah wrote: post #115
wdanilo wrote: post #95

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@CyberDildonics, I think that @indescions_2017 was referring to pipelines suitable to be run inside game engines, working at "runtime", not batch-processing data upfront. You cannot utilize any of the software you mentioned to do it. You can use Houdini engine, but it's image processing capabilities are super limited currently and even if they improve, you are limited to thinking in the context of SOPs, DOPs, CHOPs e…

TouchDesigner ( https://www.derivative.ca/ ) or vvvv ( https://vvvv.org/ ) are more comparable, since these systems DO work in realtime environments. But yeah, you still have to think in the context of SOPs, TOPs, CHOPs...

You cannot embed touchdesigner in a game engine (at last with ease). VVVV does not comes with abstraction over DOPs SOPs etc, but both are still very limited regarding what datatypes they can process.

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by akavel »

wdanilo wrote: post #114
akavel wrote: post #111

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Wouldn't it be trouble if I tried to visit you at your office tomorrow? :) Not sure if time (and traffic) will let me, but I'm in the same city, and super interested in your project... would love to talk some... note: not an investor in any way, sorry ;) but I wanted to build something similar in some ways, and now have high hopes that maybe I won't have to, maybe I'll be just able to build on it/extend it! If you're…

Sure, it's a super cool idea. Let's drop me an email to wojciech at luna-lang.org and we set all the details (time / place etc) - we've got a parking place here, but its "hidden" so if you will be driving car, you can park here without problems! :) We are not looking for any investments now but we are looking to collaborate with everyone interested in Luna, so that sounds like a "perfect match" for us! :D

Sent! Please check your spam folder ;) Also copied to the address from your website, or are both correct?

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by kustosz »

spuz wrote: post #112
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 is the largest program written in Luna? How does Luna compare with other mainstream programming languages for complex applications such as compilers, browsers and web applications?

The standard library is 3-ish kLOCs (written entirely in Luna) and growing, the biggest use cases we've created so far were around 500 LOCs. Performance-wise, we are letting the GHC compiler infrastructure do most of the heavy lifting. As for the more complex applications, it may be tricky to create a compiler or a web browser in Luna in its current state, but we are constantly working on on improving the performance, with the goal to match Haskell's. Web applications (particularly microservices) are among our main focuses now, so that's entirely within our reach.

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by wdanilo »

akavel wrote: post #123
wdanilo wrote: post #114

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Sure, it's a super cool idea. Let's drop me an email to wojciech at luna-lang.org and we set all the details (time / place etc) - we've got a parking place here, but its "hidden" so if you will be driving car, you can park here without problems! :) We are not looking for any investments now but we are looking to collaborate with everyone interested in Luna, so that sounds like a "perfect match" for us! :D

Sent! Please check your spam folder ;) Also copied to the address from your website, or are both correct?

I've got it and just replied. See you tomorrow! :)

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by zimablue »

This idea will eventually work and be huge I think (I know visual programming languages already exist but a commonly used one to emerge). As someone who believes in metaprogramming and flexibility though I'm hoping for something dynamic, not a heavy mandatory type system that compiles to Haskell.

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by wdanilo »

joshmarlow wrote: post #116
wdanilo wrote: post #49

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First of all, we originate from Open Source community and we believe in it so strong, that we set it as a backbone for our business. We also believe in Open Adoption Software model: https://www.slideshare.net/AccelPartners/the-rise-of-open-ad... . Answering the question more directly, we will be providing payed support and hosted computing environment with automatic scalability in the future, however now we will be f…

Thank you for the link about the Open Adoption Software model. It was a nice read!

I'm glad you like it! :)

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by shmolyneaux »

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…

Very cool project! What license are you planning on using?

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by waterpowder »

xor1 wrote: post #101
wdanilo wrote: post #97

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Our programmer designed it and we've just build it using some standard bootstrap. It might seem like a joke, but it's currently not :D

Ahh, I actually really like it alot!

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.ie/2010/04/alot-is-better-...

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Post by wdanilo »

shmolyneaux wrote: post #128
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…

Very cool project! What license are you planning on using?

We are considering MIT or Apache v2, what do you recommend?
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