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class Point:
x y z :: Int
origin = Point 0 0 0
Point x y _ = origin
print 'Origin XY coords are ($x,$y)'
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Hi! We write almost everything in Haskell. By the way, Num in IO in IO is completely ok function signature - it means that you have a function that uses IO to optain a function which will return a number while performing another IO action :) However it is completely ok in Luna for the end user to type it simpler, like `a :: Num` and the compiler will keep track of all "monad transformers" under the hood.
I think this is a really good idea -- many people, myself included, get really excited about Haskell and then are turned off by the complexity of monad transformers. I would recommend that you focus on good error messages that explain monad-related errors in "user land" and not force them to either guess about what's wrong or suddenly learn all the stuff under the hood. It's a terrible experience and you see it in C+…
Examples on the home page have broken indentation, or just a multi-level indentation that is confusing? class Point: x y z :: Int origin = Point 0 0 0 Point x y _ = origin print 'Origin XY coords are ($x,$y)' (Why is `origin =` indented at all?)
Which is why Luna is entirely hosted within itself and needs a Luna implementation to bootstrap.
We wouldn't want to ask investors to believe in any traditional development after telling them it's broken.
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This is what we want to deliver a little bit later. So you could go to our website, click "start", make the graph and everything will be run and scaled automatically for you, delivering you the results. Are we talking about the same functionality? (I'm abstracting over particular hardware provider).
1 click deployment to something like golem.network would be even cooler
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This was a super-valid position until Sept. 14, 2015, when Node.js and io.js combined to establish a stable runtime. From that day forward, JS/ES have been fast to change and stable.
I don't care what they done in terms of stable runtime. I mean, I care, but not in the context of the language itself. Language is all - combined! The runtime, syntax, libs, everything. I call it "experience" or "feeling". I like the idea to treat JS as web assembler, but as a language, JS is just a garbage. It will be garbage until you will be able to write code, that seems completely valid unless you are super JS g…
The `map(parseInt)` example is an obscure strawman that exists solely due to historical purposes; it's very difficult to change this sort of thing in a language because it would involve one of two things:
1. Change the API of `parseInt`, break everything
2. Change the API of `Array::map`, break everything
If you want JS devs to respect your voice you may want to attack the more fundamental problems with the language, like its lack of type-safety, rather than the remnants of its "upbringing".
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 $1M, so we can safely focus on product development and shortly on commun…
Examples on the home page have broken indentation, or just a multi-level indentation that is confusing? class Point: x y z :: Int origin = Point 0 0 0 Point x y _ = origin print 'Origin XY coords are ($x,$y)' (Why is `origin =` indented at all?)
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When you're talking about building a community, I'm wondering how are you going to convince Data Scientists who are pretty much used to R and Python and not any functional programming language, try Luna? Any plans for it? Like a free course on Udemy or any mooc to take this to masses?
We are open to suggestions here. We know that Luna brings a great power to Data Scientists but there have to be a good way to show this power to them. I don't know currently what way would be the best and we've got a little time until we do it. For now, the first milestone for us is to build community around good programmers (including good programmers from the data science field) and later target less technical peop…
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I prefer to alienate potential converts than convert JavaScripters! Just joking of course. It is hard to hide hate to a non-language treated as a super cool language. But you are right, I've never thought about it this way. I will change it, thank you!
in what way is javascript a non language? i write c, python and javascript- i dont see how one is any more of a language than another? you are baselessly pretentious