The Wake Programming Language
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The Wake Programming Language
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#2the Wake language was on here a few days ago, in the form of an article titled: The Rewards of Creating a Programming Language.
Other discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9040029
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#3the Wake language was on here a few days ago, in the form of an article titled: The Rewards of Creating a Programming Language. Other discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9040029
Good memory!
Yeah, I had posted that to Reddit, where it didn't do too well, but someone posted it here where (for some reason!) it did much better.
Figured in addition to the story of creating Wake, I'd post the home page so people could look into it more!
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#4I'm deducing an Eiffel and design-by-contract influence from this, for some reason.
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#5I really like premise of the language. It does look a little strange but that is just novelty.
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#6I really like premise of the language. It does look a little strange but that is just novelty.
Thanks! I think with programming languages its important that it looks just strange enough. Luckily I have a few simple ideas that drive most of those unique syntaxes, hopefully making the uniqueness both justifiable and attention-grabbing. Otherwise, its just the language that I want to program in every day, and I hope others feel similarly.
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#7IMHO the website tries to hard to portrait wake as a better language than others. Its ok to compare yourself to other languages, but the bytecount (which doesnt really say much about a language) and the coloring of the boxes leave a bad taste with me.
Same in the "What Wake did without" section. Yes, you do not have those features, or bugs, but have you really "FIXED" a bug? There is no bugs you have fixed, just different design decisions.
edit: The language may or may not be actually worth something, but those things make it look like they try to hard to me.
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#8> Code as concise as javascript, with inheritance and typesafety and more
Extremely minor potential nitpick: correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this sentence implies that Javascript is not type-safe, when it is indeed type-safe; it's just dynamically typed, and its type system gives meaning to all expressions (where that meaning is to signal an error in some cases).
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#9> Code as concise as javascript, with inheritance and typesafety and more Extremely minor potential nitpick: correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this sentence implies that Javascript is not type-safe, when it is indeed type-safe; it's just dynamically typed, and its type system gives meaning to all expressions (where that meaning is to signal an error in some cases).
Having types does not imply type safety. I think you're confusing "type safe" and "typed".
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#10> Code as concise as javascript, with inheritance and typesafety and more Extremely minor potential nitpick: correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this sentence implies that Javascript is not type-safe, when it is indeed type-safe; it's just dynamically typed, and its type system gives meaning to all expressions (where that meaning is to signal an error in some cases).
Correct, there is runtime typesafety in javascript. However, type-safety is a spectrum; truthiness and falsiness for instance is not very typesafe. I will revise this to be clearer (your nitpick is valid) but I think the heart of the issue is still 100% correct.