The Cyber Programming Language

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Post by scapbi » Mon, Jun 23, 2025, 2:29 AM UTC

The Cyber Programming Language
fubark.github.io

Re: The Cyber Programming Language

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Post by two_handfuls » Mon, Jun 23, 2025, 1:56 PM UTC

This pages gives a good overview and motivation for Cyber: https://cyberscript.dev/

Re: The Cyber Programming Language

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Post by two_handfuls » Mon, Jun 23, 2025, 2:06 PM UTC

One neat thing I see this has is colorless async: https://fubark.github.io/cyber/#colorless-async. However this is a work in progress as their async isn't multithreaded yet.

Re: The Cyber Programming Language

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Post by techlatest_net » Mon, Jun 23, 2025, 4:09 PM UTC

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Re: The Cyber Programming Language

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Post by tikotus » Mon, Jun 23, 2025, 5:40 PM UTC

two_handfuls wrote: post #3

One neat thing I see this has is colorless async: https://fubark.github.io/cyber/#colorless-async . However this is a work in progress as their async isn't multithreaded yet.

Interesting, but I fail to see how it can work exactly. If there's a function awaiting something, how is the function called then? Will it look like calling any function, but it might not return immediately? But then there's also examples of calling aio.delay(1000) which does return immediately. I think my question is ultimately, what's the return type of a function containing an await?

Re: The Cyber Programming Language

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Post by two_handfuls » Tue, Jun 24, 2025, 2:29 AM UTC

tikotus wrote: post #5

two_handfuls wrote: post #3

One neat thing I see this has is colorless async: https://fubark.github.io/cyber/#colorless-async . However this is a work in progress as their async isn't multithreaded yet.

Interesting, but I fail to see how it can work exactly. If there's a function awaiting something, how is the function called then? Will it look like calling any function, but it might not return immediately? But then there's also examples of calling aio.delay(1000) which does return immediately. I think my question is ultimately, what's the return type of a function containing an await?

Well I'm not the author so I can only guess the answer to your ultimate question: if a function contains an await and returns a string, my guess is that the return type would be "string".

After all, that's what "colorless" implies to me: it's possible to take a non-async function and make it async without having to change its callers. This suggests we don't change its return type.