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Ask HN: Why are you programming your hobby projects in a niche language?

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Re: Ask HN: Why are you programming your hobby projects in a niche language?

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This is a site for programmers, not a world affairs site. "Discussing pet languages" is entirely within the scope of the site. There are about a zillion other places on the web to discuss current events. Maybe try one of them instead? (edit) From the FAQ: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute a…

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Re: Ask HN: Why are you programming your hobby projects in a niche language?

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This is a site for programmers, not a world affairs site. "Discussing pet languages" is entirely within the scope of the site. There are about a zillion other places on the web to discuss current events. Maybe try one of them instead? (edit) From the FAQ: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute a…

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See my excerpt from the FAQ above.

I'm not sure why you think it's important to discuss that stuff here. As I said, it's not like there aren't hundreds, probably thousands of other forums on the web explicitly for that kind of topic.

Now, if Ukraine or Russia were using some kind of novel radar jamming technology, or they were using a neural net to control their troop movements, or something like that, that would be within the scope of the site.

Two armies beating the crap out of each other is not novel in any way.

Re: Ask HN: Why are you programming your hobby projects in a niche language?

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If you're making your own language, it helps to write real programs in it (for some value of 'real'). There's so much detail to flesh out of what seem like good ideas in the abstract.

For a niche-enough language you might contribute in this way even if you didn't start it.

Re: Ask HN: Why are you programming your hobby projects in a niche language?

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I enjoy writing code with Agda. I like writing APIs that can't be used incorrectly and dependent types are so much more powerful that anything I knew before. Also unicode/custom mixfix operators (if_then_else_) are fun to use. Other languages I've seen just can't offer these things. Probably it is not the best choice to create something you want to run as its ecosystem is not quite developed though, but I also like to reinvent the wheel..

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See my excerpt from the FAQ above. I'm not sure why you think it's important to discuss that stuff here . As I said, it's not like there aren't hundreds, probably thousands of other forums on the web explicitly for that kind of topic. Now, if Ukraine or Russia were using some kind of novel radar jamming technology, or they were using a neural net to control their troop movements, or something like that, that would be…

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Re: Ask HN: Why are you programming your hobby projects in a niche language?

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I use BiwaScheme a lot. It's a (reasonably good, though not 100% complete) Scheme that runs in the browser and has excellent JavaScript interop. It's pleasant to write stuff in a non-ugly language, while still having access to the JS environment if you need it.

What are other non-ugly languages from your perspective, and why?
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