The Flix Programming Language
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The Flix Programming Language
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#2Woah, the effect system looks really neat at first glance. Also, “region-based local mutation” so your pure functions can use mutation under the hood for performance? Sweet!
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#3Great, But \ is ugly
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#4I'm disappointed this is not from Netflix.
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#5Great, But \ is ugly
That's just what I was thinking too haha. Honestly I really like the rest of the syntax though. (And of course, the type system features look neat but it's easier to have an opinion on syntax.)
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#6do functional languages mainly appeal to computer language enthusiasts/researchers? im just not seeing the benefit personally.
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#7Woah, the effect system looks really neat at first glance. Also, “region-based local mutation” so your pure functions can use mutation under the hood for performance? Sweet!
I'd like to see an experimental language that leans hard into the concept of controlled mutation.
I always say that purely in terms of design my ideal language is high-level Haskell, low-level C. Conceptually, purely functional design is how programming "should" (note the quotes) be, but doing so down to the level of functions is both not very practical (some algorithms are just easier to express in terms pointers moving around rather than folds, reduces and the like), and makes it hard to reason about performance (especially memory, and most especially if you throw laziness in the mix).
But then again, I write my own stuff in python because I'm a lazy fuck, so probably it's not meant to be :(
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#8This looks interesting with lots of feature packed. Looks like a promising language.
One thing not clear is what's the reference vs value model, lifetime, and mutable vs immutable model.
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#9do functional languages mainly appeal to computer language enthusiasts/researchers? im just not seeing the benefit personally.
Do you worry about side-effects that leak beyond the scope of the routines you're authoring?
Why / why not?
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#10do functional languages mainly appeal to computer language enthusiasts/researchers? im just not seeing the benefit personally.
Do you worry about side-effects that leak beyond the scope of the routines you're authoring? Why / why not?
i do, does functional programming make this a non issue? maybe im just not smart enough to wrap my head around it.