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I prefer to alienate potential converts than convert JavaScripters! Just joking of course. It is hard to hide hate to a non-language treated as a super cool language. But you are right, I've never thought about it this way. I will change it, thank you!
Well, it was pretty good ad for me, so maybe reconsider.
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I prefer to alienate potential converts than convert JavaScripters! Just joking of course. It is hard to hide hate to a non-language treated as a super cool language. But you are right, I've never thought about it this way. I will change it, thank you!
This was a super-valid position until Sept. 14, 2015, when Node.js and io.js combined to establish a stable runtime. From that day forward, JS/ES have been fast to change and stable.
This looks really beautiful: what's it written in? Also, "Num in IO", nice. Now we wait for someone to write a "(Num in IO) in IO" action.
Hi! We write almost everything in Haskell. By the way, Num in IO in IO is completely ok function signature - it means that you have a function that uses IO to optain a function which will return a number while performing another IO action :) However it is completely ok in Luna for the end user to type it simpler, like `a :: Num` and the compiler will keep track of all "monad transformers" under the hood.
I would recommend that you focus on good error messages that explain monad-related errors in "user land" and not force them to either guess about what's wrong or suddenly learn all the stuff under the hood. It's a terrible experience and you see it in C++ with incomprehensible template errors or any kind of transpiled language like ClojureScript that gives you errors from the underlying implementation.
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But without giving access, how can you expect passion? :-) Let everyone check it out, the passionate ones will engage more through any channels you have (mailing lists, chat, twitter) and be easy to find, IMO.
I don't disagree with you, though don't necessarily agree, either because I don't know that passionate people are communicative people. I know many passionate people, myself included, who've been known to be rather introverted. After reading some of their comments & the copy on their homepage, the creators of Luna sound like they could be fairly mindful people. I'm betting they're seeking people who enshrine certain…
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…
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 I implement pixel-level video effects with Luna (e.g. warping, time map, segmentation, keying, etc.)?
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)! :)
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…
One click deployment example to AWS Lambda or Google Cloud Functions could be killer scenario!
What is confusing to me is if the visualization actually running the code or is just static analysis of the code?
The reason I ask is if its running then what you have built is a language with an absolutely awesome visual REPL. If it is please say its a language with awesome visual REPL! A potential Excel for programmers killer. There are languages that tried to do this (Squeak, and Racket come to mind) but they were generally academic and more often for students/young adults (and not for businesses).
However you say whiteboard through out your marketing which makes me think brainstorming tools ala evernote, orgmode etc. I realize for VC they might prefer whiteboard.
Whiteboard to me is sharing and not really a tool. It means I have to register and create a profile when all I really want is a language with a powerful visual REPL. (again just my point of view on marketing).
Any relationship to TJ H's repo, http://github.com/tj/luna ?