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Re: The Om Programming Language

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Post by crystal_revenge »

esafak wrote: post #3

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It's clearly a language designed for people interested in programming languages. Plenty of straightforward examples to show what makes this language interesting/different/worth your time.

But if you're incurious about things that aren't immediately practical (which has sadly been a growing number of HN community in more recent years), you will probably not be interested.

In an era when so much "practical" coding can be offloaded to an LLM, I'm particularly interested in seeing languages that are doing something different even if it makes them initially impractical.

Re: The Om Programming Language

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Post by itishappy »

esafak wrote: post #3

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I don't think the project wants any "takers" per se. The first sentence describes it as:

> a novel, maximally-simple concatenative, homoiconic programming and algorithm notation language

This is a toy language designed to showcase a novel programming paradigm.

Personally, I like tech demonstrations, so I scrolled down and found the examples section. That's all I was hoping to get out of this interaction.

Re: The Om Programming Language

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Post by pgt »

Would recommend placing example language syntax above the fold. Was tough to have to scroll halfway down the entire site to see any syntax. Nobody cares about the EBNF syntax until they have a feel for the language.

Re: The Om Programming Language

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Post by oblio »

robotresearcher wrote: post #11
staticassertion wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am always kind of surprised when I go to a landing page for a language and there isn't any actual code. This is one of my biggest complaints about the rust language page, it feels crazy to me that there's no code and I think this is just a ridiculous choice (and I know this has been brought up before). The old page had a built-in sandbox. Go used to have a more "Front and center" sandbox too but at least it's there…

There is code. Small examples start halfway down the page, and there's one 20-line example. Not much, but it's not accurate to say there's none. It would be helpful to see any kind of motivation for the project though. Anything at all.

On my phone that code is about 250+ lines down, probably 4-5 screens down.

It basically doesn't exist as far as marketing is concerned.

Re: The Om Programming Language

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Post by leephillips »

codegeek wrote: post #18
esafak wrote: post #3

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I would at least update body tag to add basic css to make this more readable:

There is nothing wrong with the site as it is. The text reflows, so you can size your window to any width that you find comfortable. With a decent window manager this is just a few keystrokes at most.

Re: The Om Programming Language

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Post by einpoklum »

crystal_revenge wrote: post #21
esafak wrote: post #3

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It's clearly a language designed for people interested in programming languages. Plenty of straightforward examples to show what makes this language interesting/different/worth your time. But if you're incurious about things that aren't immediately practical (which has sadly been a growing number of HN community in more recent years), you will probably not be interested. In an era when so much "practical" coding can…

> In an era when so much "practical" coding can be offloaded to an LLM

I see what you did there with the parentheses.

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