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Luna 1.0 Beta is out

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Re: Luna 1.0 Beta is out

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Post by anigbrowl »

wdanilo wrote: post #115
anigbrowl wrote: post #81

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iirc it's flowstone DSP, last time I looked there was still a free version though it's not an open source project. Would recommend to anyone as an example of good UI in this area

@anigbrowl I do not know flowstone DSP, but I see you were thinking much about GUI / nodes design. This is one of the topics I'm passionate about and I we want to make Luna the most powerful visual language available. I would love to chat with you about node design and your ideas. If you think it's interesting, I've just created a topic on our forum for this – I would love to read and discuss your thoughts there! htt…

Will do

Re: Luna 1.0 Beta is out

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Post by executesorder66 »

wdanilo wrote: post #127
executesorder66 wrote: post #101

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> if you don't want to provide your mail, just write anything in this field, we do NOT validate it in any way. So why don't you just make it a non-required field? I don't appreciate your attitude towards user privacy, so I will never use any of your products.

@executesorder66 I am sorry if you feel we don't respect our user's privacy. We do and we are always searching for the best solution. We did not make the field optional, because we were sure it will not be a problem when testing the beta product. We will release soon a fix which would allow you to progress without providing the mail. The anonymous usage statistics will be optional and disabled by default when Luna wi…

Thanks for your response. I was honestly not expecting one.

> We will release soon a fix which would allow you to progress without providing the mail.

If this happens, then you have indeed solved my issue, and restored my confidence in the human race. Thank you.

Re: Luna 1.0 Beta is out

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Post by shall20 »

wdanilo wrote: post #108
kobrad wrote: post #97

This thing is a nightmare to install and uninstall. The installer is 170 megs and downloads god knows what, there is no uninstall, and when you try to do it manually you see it spawned three or four processes without letting you know. This is incredibly amazingly malware like if you ask me

The installer is 170mb after unpacking - it is just an electron app (for providing you GUI) connected to our installation manager. The command line installation managar is very lightweight (around 2mb) - we will provide it as an alternative to the graphical one. We will try to make the electron app smaller. The installer downloads Luna Studio - The graphical environment and Luna compiler and installs it on your compu…

"just an electron app"... :(

Re: Luna 1.0 Beta is out

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Post by shall20 »

cakoose wrote: post #50

"many recent innovations in programming language design, such as higher-order functions, non-strict semantics, algebraic data types, object oriented programming and sophisticated type inference engine" These lies are unnecessary.

I don't know why this comment is down-voted. It might be harsh, but quite frankly the quote is just wrong on a technical level.

All of theses "features" were present in the 80s and 90s...

Re: Luna 1.0 Beta is out

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Post by wdanilo »

rayalez wrote: post #39

Amazing! I've been lookibg forward to this for a long time, can't wait to build something with it! By the way, I've made an unofficial subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/LunaLang/ Could be useful to share projects, ask/answer questions, etc.

<3

Re: Luna 1.0 Beta is out

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Post by wdanilo »

executesorder66 wrote: post #142
wdanilo wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

@executesorder66 I am sorry if you feel we don't respect our user's privacy. We do and we are always searching for the best solution. We did not make the field optional, because we were sure it will not be a problem when testing the beta product. We will release soon a fix which would allow you to progress without providing the mail. The anonymous usage statistics will be optional and disabled by default when Luna wi…

Thanks for your response. I was honestly not expecting one. > We will release soon a fix which would allow you to progress without providing the mail. If this happens, then you have indeed solved my issue, and restored my confidence in the human race. Thank you.

Of course we will do it. We are building this product for years and we are releasing it as Open Source project because we believe we can truly impact how people are able to process data. We do this because we want to contribute with Luna to how you currently work. In other words, we really do Luna for you, our users. We have to collect data to know if we are heading in the right direction, that's all. If we collect it in such way that it disturbs you, then we have to fix that! Here is related issue I've created for it: https://github.com/luna/luna-manager/issues/118

I do not promise it will be resolved tomorrow, because we've got some high priority bugs regarding windows installation, but I'll ask our team to resolve it faster than later.

Re: Luna 1.0 Beta is out

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Post by wdanilo »

ernsheong wrote: post #42

Pardon the ignorance, but how does the team support itself, freemium language and premium tools?

Here is the topic on Luna monetization on our forum: https://discuss.luna-lang.org/t/how-is-luna-monetized/46/9

As you can see, we are open for discussions here and we are still looking for the best model, so we would love to chat about it! :)

Re: Luna 1.0 Beta is out

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Post by wdanilo »

akavel wrote: post #114

Wooohooo, I'm super happy and excited that you made it!!! Was already losing hope, and now what an awesome surprise! :) Huge congratulations, getting from prototype to shipping is hard, and you know it well enough :) Hope I'll have a chance to dabble with it ASAP! By the way, have you sent a notification email to your alpha subscribers? I don't seem to have gotten anything in my inbox... only found via HN (just when…

akavel thank you, thank you! We've sent the mails, could you double check if it is not there?

There was a thread about party in Krakow on our Chat, lets discuss it there! :)

Re: Luna 1.0 Beta is out

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Post by wdanilo »

cakoose wrote: post #50

"many recent innovations in programming language design, such as higher-order functions, non-strict semantics, algebraic data types, object oriented programming and sophisticated type inference engine" These lies are unnecessary.

@cakoose, would you be so nice and elaborate more why do you think we are lying? It is very sad to read such comments, seriously. We were doing our best to bring Luna to our community, so why are you talking that we were lying about anything now?

Re: Luna 1.0 Beta is out

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Post by Vesnica »

wdanilo wrote: post #44
Vesnica wrote: post #32

Windows installer needs add proxy settings, I'm behind a firewall, and always get "Prelude.head: empty list" error.

@Vesnica, we would address this issue tomorrow (it's 2 am here and our team is slowly falling asleep!). I've created an issue for you, so you can easily track its progress here: https://github.com/luna/luna-manager/issues/111 :)

Thank you very much!
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