This seems like the brain child of one ambitious smart person that still needs to receive feedback from the outside world.
Beads: Computer language and toolchain
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#12Ah, youth.
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#13It's very strange to me that the first pitch is that because desktops, laptops, and phones, are now all 64-bit, that is why we can now create a cross-platform language... that replaces scripting-ish languages.
I could understand if this was saying the 64-bit transition made things like Zig/Rust much simpler, but this seems like a non-sequitur for what Beads appears to be for.
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#14can't tell if it's a parody
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#15This is their example of Fizzbuzz: https://github.com/magicmouse/beads-examples/blob/master/Exa... But this is supposed to replace Excel somehow? Along with basically every other language. I can't accuse them of not being ambitious.
I'm struggling to see the advantage over currently popular languages.
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#16The marketing effort here feels so unbalanced. On the plus side, there's a marketing video with a professional sounding voiceover. But then there's a website titled "Beads Language Home Site", with a barebones design, and which talks repeatedly about "Macintosh" and "Windows OS".
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#17This seems like the brain child of one ambitious smart person that still needs to receive feedback from the outside world.
It also feels like at least as much effort went into the marketing (site, videos) and PDF resources (ref cards) as went into the language itself.
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#18A lot of bold claims here. As someone who's worked on a lot of Excel business tools I can tell you there's no way something like this could replace anything in the companies I've worked for.
In the illustration of the stack of things it replaces, it includes "Unix". Which is... you know... a claim one could make.
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#20It's very strange to me that the first pitch is that because desktops, laptops, and phones, are now all 64-bit, that is why we can now create a cross-platform language... that replaces scripting-ish languages. I could understand if this was saying the 64-bit transition made things like Zig/Rust much simpler, but this seems like a non-sequitur for what Beads appears to be for.
I'm a little confused as well. A cross-platform language can work on any platform, like I can take my C++ code and run it on 64-bit or 32-bit, and this is true with plenty of other languages as well. I don't understand the relationship there at all.