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This looks not unlike a project I worked on several years ago, called Radian (http://www.radian-lang.org/ http://www.radian-lang.org/). That venture suffered fr
by marssaxman 11y ago
This looks not unlike a project I worked on several years ago, called Radian (http://www.radian-lang.org/ http://www.radian-lang.org/). That venture suffered from weak interoperability with system libraries, but more so from the lack of any niche community which could take it up as a solution. I wonder if you have any plans along those lines for Regent? It's hard to get a new general-purpose language off the ground, so semi-specializing on a particular class of uses can help bootstrap a community.
- eslaught 11y agoDefinitely agree on both counts. One of the best things I did during development was to do an internship where I could be close to potential users. Porting an existing application was also a helpful forcing function, both for the feature set of the language as well as performance. So far I've focused on HPC users. I think focusing on a niche carries some risk that the language might be too narrow (and this is particularly true of HPC). But one thing I like about HPC is that HPC users really know what they're talking about when it comes to performance.
- srean 11y agoWas curious to checkout http://www.radian-lang.org/ http://www.radian-lang.org/ It gets me a server error. Is it still online ?
- marssaxman 11y agoThanks for the note; I'll look into it. Not sure what's gone wrong.
- marssaxman 11y agoI'm not sure what's up with the website. I've pushed the most recent source tree up to github: http://www.github.com/marssaxman/radian http://www.github.com/marssaxman/radian