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Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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I really like how the Luna site looks. As someone who knows nothing about web front-end, how was it made? Custom-built? Template?

Our programmer designed it and we've just build it using some standard bootstrap. It might seem like a joke, but it's currently not :D

Ahh, I actually really like it alot!

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Hi guys! My name is Wojciech Danilo and I'm one of the founders of Luna. The timing for this news is a little unfortunate, because we are just before releasing Luna as an Open Source project! However, it's great time to answer some questions and give you a short update what has happened for the last couple months: 1. We've raised a seed round of $1M, so we can safely focus on product development and shortly on commun…

I'm interested in seeing how an open source programming language/platform with a clean GUI will evolve. Curious to see this in a year!

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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I like to see a language that's a simple subset of ruby for example but the OO is delegated to a graphical representation (boxes for classes, arrows for methods etc..)

I'm afraid Luna is not for you then! However, I strongly doubt that visualization of OO concepts will bring you a productive environment. I also believe that the combination of functional programming and visual paradigm is the way to go here :)

How do you do basic branching and loops?

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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post #26

Hi guys! My name is Wojciech Danilo and I'm one of the founders of Luna. The timing for this news is a little unfortunate, because we are just before releasing Luna as an Open Source project! However, it's great time to answer some questions and give you a short update what has happened for the last couple months: 1. We've raised a seed round of $1M, so we can safely focus on product development and shortly on commun…

I'm interested in seeing how an open source programming language/platform with a clean GUI will evolve. Curious to see this in a year!

We are also super curious and we hope it will shine. If you hope for it too, let's contribute! We'd love to work with you to polish it as much as possible! :)

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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How did you convince VC-s, that there's need for a new programming language? (I'm totally not saying there's no need, but since it's highly technical and I probably would fail at it I'm really curious)

We are not really making a programming language. So, err.. ok, we are. But it is "just" an engine. Luna is a data processing platform. It allows you to prototype, design and deploy data processing applications much faster than it is currently possible, while working in an elegant, interactive data visualization environment. Moreover, we are supported by many cool companies that want to use Luna for their purposes, in…

Thanks for the response, it makes more sense now. However your site does say it's "just" a programming language with huge font size :)

You might want to add what you just posted, there's nothing wrong with it, but it would make more people to get it IMHO.

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are not really making a programming language. So, err.. ok, we are. But it is "just" an engine. Luna is a data processing platform. It allows you to prototype, design and deploy data processing applications much faster than it is currently possible, while working in an elegant, interactive data visualization environment. Moreover, we are supported by many cool companies that want to use Luna for their purposes, in…

Haha, I was thinking the same. Well it's not really a programming language, but a data processing platform, business people love that -> VCs love that.

Lets underline one important thing. Luna really is nut just a language, it really is a data processing / visualization platform! :D

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Hi guys! My name is Wojciech Danilo and I'm one of the founders of Luna. The timing for this news is a little unfortunate, because we are just before releasing Luna as an Open Source project! However, it's great time to answer some questions and give you a short update what has happened for the last couple months: 1. We've raised a seed round of $1M, so we can safely focus on product development and shortly on commun…

Ah - great to hear you're open sourcing it because I was a bit put off by 'sign up to be selected' form, even though the product is fascinating.

Re: Luna – Visual and textual functional programming language

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are not really making a programming language. So, err.. ok, we are. But it is "just" an engine. Luna is a data processing platform. It allows you to prototype, design and deploy data processing applications much faster than it is currently possible, while working in an elegant, interactive data visualization environment. Moreover, we are supported by many cool companies that want to use Luna for their purposes, in…

Thanks for the response, it makes more sense now. However your site does say it's "just" a programming language with huge font size :) You might want to add what you just posted, there's nothing wrong with it, but it would make more people to get it IMHO.

There is a big difference between what Luna is and who we target with our website. We want now to keep in touch with good developers and build community around them and make Luna a dancing and singing complete development environment with high-level libraries useful for less technical people. The libs we include are very limited currently, so Luna would not be very usable for non-technical people in its current state. Does it make sense? We will try to explain it better on our new website though! :)
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