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This is probably my favorite programming language I would like to use if it had more backing. Their reference capabilities in particular seem like a very good match for the actor model. Alas, it does not appear to have a large corporation behind it pushing it forward, nor a compelling niche use case (e.g. it is still GC'd).
The causality model was great, but is there a way to handle backpressure now?
Took a while to find the Hello World. It looks like a sort of oop python.
It's statically and strongly typed, and super concurrent. It's a very different vibe than anything python.
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I personally found the descriptions of the concepts and ideas more illuminating and interesting than a code example. If you're only looking to nitpick the superficial syntax, kinda like judging a person's character by how they dress, then I guess you're not in the target audience for this documentation.
And you cannot have both at the same time, because...?
I wish these language websites would put an example of some code right there on the homepage so I can see what the language "feels" like. I finally found some code in the tutorials https://tutorial.ponylang.io/getting-started/hello-world
The syntax is the least interesting thing about the language, and hello-world examples demonstrate almost none of the syntax. This bit from the About page is notable: "never write a programming language. That’s like rule #1. Everybody will just tell you it isn’t needed and then argue about syntax."
I agree for the hello world but I disagree with the syntax. It is the first thing you see and the characteristic you can never escape. It is like the layout and typesetting of a text: the substance is of course more important, but it is still very important. I personally find much more readable languages that have a concise-but-not-too-much syntax, that use not too many special characters, and that is read like fortran/pascal/c/etc (I don't how to define it, but for example lisp is different)
Its original designer, Sylvan Clebsch, is nowadays working at Microsoft Research on languages like Verona [0], the last paper he contributed to, which has Guido as well among the collaborators, is about adding regions to dynamic languages, using Python as example implementation,
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/dynamic...
[0] - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-ver...
I gave it an honest look for 5 minutes and after still only having found a 3-line hello world I gave up (and came here to complain). It's great that you have all that philosophy behind it, all sounded great, but if you don't show me a compelling example in the first minute or two, not even in tutorial, then you'll fail to capture my interest.
I personally found the descriptions of the concepts and ideas more illuminating and interesting than a code example. If you're only looking to nitpick the superficial syntax, kinda like judging a person's character by how they dress, then I guess you're not in the target audience for this documentation.
Took a while to find the Hello World. It looks like a sort of oop python.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The syntax is the least interesting thing about the language, and hello-world examples demonstrate almost none of the syntax. This bit from the About page is notable: "never write a programming language. That’s like rule #1. Everybody will just tell you it isn’t needed and then argue about syntax."
> The syntax is the least interesting thing about the language, and hello-world examples demonstrate almost none of the syntax. I agree for the hello world but I disagree with the syntax. It is the first thing you see and the characteristic you can never escape. It is like the layout and typesetting of a text: the substance is of course more important, but it is still very important. I personally find much more reada…
I wish these language websites would put an example of some code right there on the homepage so I can see what the language "feels" like. I finally found some code in the tutorials https://tutorial.ponylang.io/getting-started/hello-world
I think Nim has a good homepage, with some bullet points explaining what the language is all about coupled with several code examples. I'm not saying Nim is better, but I visited the page the other day and thought it was neat. https://nim-lang.org/