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Re: The Crack Programming Language

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This page doesn't sell it to me. Maybe it's a great language, who knows? 1. With Go, I understand the point. It makes advances in terms of how easy it is to write concurrent programs, without completely ditching the traditional imperative model. 2. Rust is a different take on the same point. We want concurrency and safety. Rust's difference from Go is that it is more safe, and makes it easier to give latency guarante…

Technically, work on Crack became public before work on Go did. So you should be asking what Go provides that Crack doesn't. Technically.

and rust,

but yeah, maybe its the name

Re: The Crack Programming Language

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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are joking aren't you? There's not a line of documentation on the Flua webpage. The Windows download doesn't open on my Windows machine and I need a GUI to run it on Linux (which my linux box doesn't support). It also claims to be as fast as C, but a cursory examination of the source suggests it is entirely written in Python and Flua!

That's because there is no online version of the documentation right now. It's only available in the editor, it's an Alpha after all. Just because the compiler is written in Python it does not mean the Flua programs are executed in Python. In fact they can be executed in multiple environments and C++ is the one which is currently being developed, hence the programs _are_ fast. How come the Windows download doesn't wo…

Locking people into needing a specific editor just to get the documentation is a bad move.

Re: The Crack Programming Language

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's because there is no online version of the documentation right now. It's only available in the editor, it's an Alpha after all. Just because the compiler is written in Python it does not mean the Flua programs are executed in Python. In fact they can be executed in multiple environments and C++ is the one which is currently being developed, hence the programs _are_ fast. How come the Windows download doesn't wo…

Locking people into needing a specific editor just to get the documentation is a bad move.

Yeah, sorry - I just couldn't find any time to write an online version. Will do it as soon as possible.
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