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To design complex systems like a car, you really need to know not just the functionality and the type of information, but also the structure of the system. How do all of those systems on the car physically connect to result in the behavior.
It seems like your approach would be really powerful for data processing, since in that case I don't think the structure matters much. Have you thought about how this could be applied to a complex system where structure is extremely important?
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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)
We are not really making a programming language. So, err.. ok, we are. But it is "just" an engine. Luna is a data processing platform. It allows you to prototype, design and deploy data processing applications much faster than it is currently possible, while working in an elegant, interactive data visualization environment. Moreover, we are supported by many cool companies that want to use Luna for their purposes, in…
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Sorry dude, I'm going to have to step in; you're being too strong in your counter attitude. I've been writing and teaching JavaScript professionally for many years, and while I don't hate the language, I don't blame those who do. After learning and using a statically typed language, it becomes absurd how much effort you have to put in to debug a JavaScript type error – a problem that is amplified by the language desi…
(just going' down this rabbit hole with you all) The problem I have with static typing (as widely implemented) is it solves little problems at the cost of arbitrary inflexibility which ends up rippling through a code base. And the little problems are better solved in other ways. E.g., unit tests and the like catch type errors on the way to validating that your code actually does what you think it should do. Static ty…
As for distributed systems, it's true that static typing doesn't solve that on it's own, but combined with something like protobuf, it should right? Admittedly I've only recently learned of protobufs so feel free to correct me.
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You might want to adjust the colours, and look at it on a few more screens. The medium grey on dark grey is pretty unreadable - the only reason I didn't close the page immediately is the number of upvotes it got on HN.
Would it help if we put a button "high-contrast"? On vast majority of displays the website looks well balanced and not eye-burning, but of course it does not cover older displays, displays that are dimmed or used in heavy lighting. Would such button solve your problems or do you think we should just strongly re-consider how we present everything?
What is it compiled to? Does it target JVM, CLR, native code (if so what platforms?) What is it compiled with? LLVM ? GCC ? Custom compiler? What is the standard library like?
It targets few backends. Currently it runs on our VM, but we are working on targetting GHC's Haskell Core (which then compiles to LLVM IR). Luna's compiler is of course a custom compiler written in Haskell. Standard library looks cool! Did I answered your questions? :)
What does that even mean? No offense, but like I haven't seen any demos on your website and you are describing the std lib as cool? Not exactly confidence aspiring.
It looks interesting for sure and looks really fun to mess around with (frankly has a hobbyist high school programmer who likes systems programming, I don't see a whole lot of use for me :))
Good luck.