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The Elena Programming Language

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Re: The Elena Programming Language

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Post by shureluck »

From a quick read-through of the docs, I really love that the language is providing a fresh take on things without the super-junior promise of trying to “solve everything”. I’m impressed and will take a closer look.

Re: The Elena Programming Language

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Post by whynotwhynot »

From a PL design perspective, I'm interested in finding out what new ideas it introduces to an already crowded field?

Rust is good example of a PL design that introduces new concepts (around ownership.)

Pony is another good example of PL design, for the same reason as Rust, but it differs in important ways by introducing Reference Capabilities. I tried to get some attention to it the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24201754

What new ideas does Elena introduce?

Re: The Elena Programming Language

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Post by mastrsushi »

jimbob45 wrote: post #4

Is there anyone that doesn’t immediately scroll past the elevator pitch to the code examples when looking at a new language?

Absolutely, No one here thinks you're Steve Jobs. Just show me your little toy pet project example code to convince me it's slightly less useless than the 10 other ones that get posted here everyday.

Re: The Elena Programming Language

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

whynotwhynot wrote: post #6

From a PL design perspective, I'm interested in finding out what new ideas it introduces to an already crowded field? Rust is good example of a PL design that introduces new concepts (around ownership.) Pony is another good example of PL design, for the same reason as Rust, but it differs in important ways by introducing Reference Capabilities. I tried to get some attention to it the other day: https://news.ycombinat…

I heard a good podcast about pony recently: https://corecursive.com/055-unproven-with-sean-allen-1/ - it’s about how Wallaroo Labs came to use it. They talk about using it to deal with some really interesting engineering challenges. One of the things that I found interesting is their comparison to Rust was that at least at the time Rust didn’t have a comparable runtime to Pony’s high performance actor based one.
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