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I started learning Haskell again this year. And I finally got to work with it professionally. I'm also using PureScript in the same project, so it's really exci

by elbear 8y ago

I started learning Haskell again this year. And I finally got to work with it professionally. I'm also using PureScript in the same project, so it's really exciting. This year I also discovered R. I had to do a Python to R translation, so I got fairly familiar with R. I also discovered a few languages, but I haven't started learning them yet: red-lang and Pharo.

em-bee 8y ago
i started pharo a few years ago and finally found a killer app to make it worth the investment for me. red-lang is on my list to learn for quite some time now, but it probably won't happen until i find a useful application in red that i can use. same goes for haskell
- elbear 8y ago
  What app did you find for Pharo? What attracts me most about red-lang is its cross-platform GUI story (I know that the iOS back-end is not implemented yet). You can do so much with so little code. It looks like a great platform for this. The syntax also helps.
  - em-bee 8y ago
    PTerm, a command terminal ( https://github.com/lxsang/PTerm https://github.com/lxsang/PTerm ). basically my goal is to replace every tool i use with an alternative written in a language i enjoy playing with. eg. i use supmua written in ruby for email (though the killer feature of submua is not ruby but how it handles email by tags and search buffers). i am eyeing that browser written in lips that was posted here a while ago (but i have not tried it yet) and i have been looking for a terminal for pharo already some years ago. even tried to port an older squeak terminal myself. now PTerm finally fills that gap. since i use tmux inside the terminal, i don't have to worry about bugs, and i can easily work with the latest development version and give the maintainer feedback, and hopefully some time even write my own patches.
    - em-bee 8y ago
      on red, i do like its syntax. very minimalistic, yet powerful. i hope, as it matures, someone will create a neat application that is useful for me.
    - em-bee 8y ago
      the browser i meant is the Next Browser written in Lisp: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18608454 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18608454
4thaccount 8y ago
I've played with Pharo a bit and have started to learn Red's ancestor "Rebol". All of these technologies are pretty great. I think Red will find that niche where it is super empowering to use and still fast enough with the Red/system dialect, multicore...etc.
- elbear 8y ago
  Easily building cross-platform GUIs could be that niche.

by elbear 8y ago

em-bee 8y ago

i started pharo a few years ago and finally found a killer app to make it worth the investment for me. red-lang is on my list to learn for quite some time now, but it probably won't happen until i find a useful application in red that i can use. same goes for haskell

elbear 8y ago
What app did you find for Pharo? What attracts me most about red-lang is its cross-platform GUI story (I know that the iOS back-end is not implemented yet). You can do so much with so little code. It looks like a great platform for this. The syntax also helps.
- em-bee 8y ago
  PTerm, a command terminal ( https://github.com/lxsang/PTerm https://github.com/lxsang/PTerm ). basically my goal is to replace every tool i use with an alternative written in a language i enjoy playing with. eg. i use supmua written in ruby for email (though the killer feature of submua is not ruby but how it handles email by tags and search buffers). i am eyeing that browser written in lips that was posted here a while ago (but i have not tried it yet) and i have been looking for a terminal for pharo already some years ago. even tried to port an older squeak terminal myself. now PTerm finally fills that gap. since i use tmux inside the terminal, i don't have to worry about bugs, and i can easily work with the latest development version and give the maintainer feedback, and hopefully some time even write my own patches.
  - em-bee 8y ago
    on red, i do like its syntax. very minimalistic, yet powerful. i hope, as it matures, someone will create a neat application that is useful for me.
  - em-bee 8y ago
    the browser i meant is the Next Browser written in Lisp: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18608454 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18608454

4thaccount 8y ago

I've played with Pharo a bit and have started to learn Red's ancestor "Rebol". All of these technologies are pretty great. I think Red will find that niche where it is super empowering to use and still fast enough with the Red/system dialect, multicore...etc.

elbear 8y ago
Easily building cross-platform GUIs could be that niche.