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Is the simple--easy-to-learn--without-the-mistakes-of-C systems language becoming a hype now? Not to be a downer, but that's what it seems like since Rust 1.0.
Your page right now focuses much more strongly on answering what it isn't. It isn't klunky, like C++. It is neither typed nor untyped. It doesn't "limit user's expressivity". It doesn't require you to declare variables, except that's also optional.
It almost comes across like it's nervous that some people might disagree with some design decisions. Let me put your mind at ease: If you are serious, and if you attain any success, I solemnly promise you the Internet will string up your language, dismember it publicly, douse all the pieces in gasoline, light them on fire, and dance around the flames. Why is that actually something that ought to put your mind at ease? Well, it's inevitable anyhow, so you might as well go ahead, have some fun, and make some decisions about what Orange is going to positively be. If you get to that point, remember you'll be the one in possession of a language that's gotten enough attention for that to be worthwhile, and they'll just be hecklers.
Edit: Looks like it does extern calls to `malloc`, with no matching frees. Supporting proper dynamic resource management is fundamental for a system language, as the whole point of an operating system is to manage resources for user programs.
Is the simple--easy-to-learn--without-the-mistakes-of-C systems language becoming a hype now? Not to be a downer, but that's what it seems like since Rust 1.0.
Is it memory-safe? Is it garbage-collected? Edit: Looks like it does extern calls to `malloc`, with no matching frees. Supporting proper dynamic resource management is fundamental for a system language, as the whole point of an operating system is to manage resources for user programs.
My advice to you is that you need to answer the question, "What is Orange?" Your page right now focuses much more strongly on answering what it isn't . It isn't klunky, like C++. It is neither typed nor untyped. It doesn't "limit user's expressivity". It doesn't require you to declare variables, except that's also optional. It almost comes across like it's nervous that some people might disagree with some design deci…
If it wants to avoid the clunkiness of C++, Orange should have concrete answers for how it will solve the problems that those clunky features address: various sorts of inheritance, compile-time computation and value-indexing with templates and constexpr, operator overloading, data layout, etc.
My advice to you is that you need to answer the question, "What is Orange?" Your page right now focuses much more strongly on answering what it isn't . It isn't klunky, like C++. It is neither typed nor untyped. It doesn't "limit user's expressivity". It doesn't require you to declare variables, except that's also optional. It almost comes across like it's nervous that some people might disagree with some design deci…
While I do strongly believe that optional typing is a feature I want to keep, I have been focusing too hard on taking a middle-of-the-road approach.
The original idea was to have a systems development language that had the same "feel" as a high level scripting language. I didn't do a lot of planning on what that meant from the technical side.
I appreciate the advice. I'll spend some time getting the answer to what Orange actually is.
My advice to you is that you need to answer the question, "What is Orange?" Your page right now focuses much more strongly on answering what it isn't . It isn't klunky, like C++. It is neither typed nor untyped. It doesn't "limit user's expressivity". It doesn't require you to declare variables, except that's also optional. It almost comes across like it's nervous that some people might disagree with some design deci…
My advice to you is that you need to answer the question, "What is Orange?" Your page right now focuses much more strongly on answering what it isn't . It isn't klunky, like C++. It is neither typed nor untyped. It doesn't "limit user's expressivity". It doesn't require you to declare variables, except that's also optional. It almost comes across like it's nervous that some people might disagree with some design deci…