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Re: Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

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Post by reactordev »

v0id_isgood wrote: post #54
reactordev wrote: post #34

https://github.com/Wyzer-Lang/wyzer#3-control-flow Is mut a thing? looks like rust.

examples aren't updated yet some guy who mocked me earlier for the language on discord deleted his statements and walked away blocking me after giving me his hacker news credentials, now here i am answering to your questions

wait what? You're joking. Some rando just picked a fight, walked it back, then gave you his HN account?

Re: Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

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Post by jerf »

chime wrote: post #57
v0id_isgood wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is hands down some of the most constructive feedback we’ve received. You hit the nail on the head. We definitely fell into the author’s trap of structuring docs "bottom-up" (Prerequisites -> Basic Syntax -> Advanced Concepts) rather than leading with our actual core innovation: choreography. We are restructuring the main README/docs front page right now to lead immediately with a concrete example of choreographi…

You should still keep doing the bottom-up approach for the rest of the docs. Just update the README first paragraph or two as the gp says.

Yes, strong agree, normalcy resumes at some point. But you want the hook in first.

I mean, I'm phrasing that in marketing terms, but in this case it's in harmony with what your users want anyhow. We want to know ASAP why we should care about this language. So it works for everyone. Of course when it comes time to deliver the promise, normal programming language documentation is the way it is for a reason.

Re: Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

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Post by jnpnj »

It would be worth writing examples of the resource ownership model (especially network wise), this is the rare feature here it seems.

ps: were you looking at efforts such as clojure electric (https://github.com/hyperfiddle/electric) ? they aim to represent computation on different hosts as one expression.

Re: Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

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Post by adastra22 »

v0id_isgood wrote: post #45
jerf wrote: post #36

I love the ambition and the fact that this is not just another "state of the art in 2015" language like I see so often. It's trying to do something genuinely different. The field of "taking stuff out of academia and making it work" is a rich and underharvested one. However, your light is hidden under a basket, to use an old metaphor. I'm having to go digging to find the genuinely new things going on. I suggest recali…

This is hands down some of the most constructive feedback we’ve received. You hit the nail on the head. We definitely fell into the author’s trap of structuring docs "bottom-up" (Prerequisites -> Basic Syntax -> Advanced Concepts) rather than leading with our actual core innovation: choreography. We are restructuring the main README/docs front page right now to lead immediately with a concrete example of choreographi…

You should avoid LLMs in your communications.
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