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Re: The Janet Programming Language

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Post by xz18r » Sat, Aug 21, 2021, 1:12 PM UTC

terracottage wrote: post #39

xz18r wrote: post #33

Just saying: in Flanders, 'janet' or 'jeanette' is an offensive slur for a homosexual man.

In Flanders, people think they speak much better English than they do. Janet and janet are pronounced differently.

I'm not saying they are pronounced the same way.

Re: The Janet Programming Language

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Post by mrkramer » Sat, Aug 21, 2021, 1:14 PM UTC

raffraffraff wrote: post #55

mrkramer wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are they naming programming languages after their girlfriends and wives? :)

...or themselves, you sexist! (I jest. Three times, in fact.)

I forgot about that sorry. I know only of COBOL that is made by women all other programming languages are pretty much made by men.

Re: The Janet Programming Language

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Post by DennisP » Sat, Aug 21, 2021, 1:15 PM UTC

I hope they never change the logo. It looks a lot like my mom, whose name was Janet. I'll probably end up trying out the language for that reason alone.

Re: The Janet Programming Language

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Post by ModernMech » Sat, Aug 21, 2021, 1:16 PM UTC

Crestwave wrote: post #23

mrkramer wrote: post #10

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Are they naming programming languages after their girlfriends and wives? :)

Janet is a reference to The Good Place https://github.com/janet-lang/janet#why-is-it-called-janet

Huh, I thought given the logo it was a reference to Janet Jetson.

Re: The Janet Programming Language

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Post by technion » Sat, Aug 21, 2021, 1:17 PM UTC

eitland wrote: post #36

Interestingly when submitting the latest tar.gz to Virustotal, Microsoft claims it contains Wacatac.B!ml Submitting one file at at time doesn't trigger it. Even packing up all the binaries and submitting that doesn't trigger is (and neither does packing up the rest of the files abd submitting them.) So I'm going to ignore MS on this one since no one else found anything suspicious either.

I've submitted a ticket about this.

https://ibb.co/dQpKT3T

Re: The Janet Programming Language

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Post by jart » Sat, Aug 21, 2021, 1:20 PM UTC

Janet is a cool language. Back in March, we managed to port it to Cosmopolitan Libc so you can build Janet code as an Actually Portable Executable. Here's the diff you need: https://github.com/janet-lang/janet/compare/master...ahgamut... The Janet team helped us identify a lot of things we needed improve with our C library implemention too! While we've ported other languages too, like Python, Lua, etc. those users will still owe much thanks to Janet.

Re: The Janet Programming Language

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Post by elondaits » Sat, Aug 21, 2021, 1:24 PM UTC

mrkramer wrote: post #62

raffraffraff wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...or themselves, you sexist! (I jest. Three times, in fact.)

I forgot about that sorry. I know only of COBOL that is made by women all other programming languages are pretty much made by men.

Ada is named after a (the first) programmer… not somebody’s wife, daughter or sister.

Re: The Janet Programming Language

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Post by smokeymorning » Sat, Aug 21, 2021, 1:26 PM UTC

Banana699 wrote: post #46

ducktective wrote: post #43

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How Lua is viable in embedded? You mean microcontroller/low-level programming right?

Embedded is a fuzzy category, specs range from Lua is extremely lightweight and portable. The interpreter doesn't exceed 500 kb in the fattest build, and the used dialect is a strict subset of ANSI C that is equally comfortable running on mainframes as on Nintendo consoles. In short : If it has a C compiler and can spare 300 kb ram, it can run Lua. So people sometimes use it there.

>Embedded is a fuzzy category, specs range from After a career in embedded software, I'd have to say that I've only worked on a couple of products that had less oomph than a high-end PC of the same era.

Re: The Janet Programming Language

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Post by ModernMech » Sat, Aug 21, 2021, 1:27 PM UTC

mrkramer wrote: post #62

raffraffraff wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...or themselves, you sexist! (I jest. Three times, in fact.)

I forgot about that sorry. I know only of COBOL that is made by women all other programming languages are pretty much made by men.

Some of the earliest languages were made by women, as women were the original (human) computers and then the first programmers.

Re: The Janet Programming Language

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Post by IncRnd » Sat, Aug 21, 2021, 1:43 PM UTC

Why was Janet created? There must have been a purpose or niche that caused its inception. If the reason was, "I wanted to write a language," that's not enough to use it in certain situations.