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Are you on the mailing list? It's a bit slow, but seriously cool to see random people bring up strange bugs and Arthur going "thanks! fixed in the next release.

by kick 7y ago

Are you on the mailing list? It's a bit slow, but seriously cool to see random people bring up strange bugs and Arthur going "thanks! fixed in the next release." over and over again like clockwork.

7thaccount 7y ago
No, but I might add myself. Speaking of fast bug fixes. 8th is a commercial Forth-like language for embedded, desktop, server, and iOS/Android that is kind of like that. It is basically a small (few MB) binary that is a full REPL that can cross-compile your code into an encrypted binary. It has nice GUI, SQL, Rest, REPL,JSON/CSV/XML...etc support all built-in as well as a bunch of other goodies. Releases happen very regularly and reported bugs are fixed incredibly fast. There is a forum with a lot of activity from the fairly small user base. Probably not everyone's cup of tea, but I've had a blast playing with the free version. The professional version is like $250 and after your free upgrades wear out you can then upgrade for a reduced cost. Full source is also available in the Enterprise edition with an NDA. In some ways it has some similarities with K. Long story short to see hundreds of posts requesting some obscure feature of edge condition and seeing a reply a few hours later with "fixed". It seems to be a pretty mature language for one person to build. I have not bought a professional edition yet as I'm having fun with the free one and this is probably not something big corporate IT would like. If I start building enough tools at home, I might go in that direction. Also, no affiliation with the project, they just seem to get a lot of my wish list right. I really wish it was a free/open source project as I bet it would catch on more.
- kick 7y ago
  Yeah, I've heard of 8th! Absolutely sucks that it's proprietary, it's seriously cool. It's one of my favorite examples of how single-man dev "teams" are the most efficient.
  - 7thaccount 7y ago
    Yeah, you get some advantages with a large language, but there is no coherant harmonizing force even with a BDFL like in Perl and Python. Arthur's work is seriously impressive and something to motivate me to write my own tools.

by kick 7y ago

Are you on the mailing list? It's a bit slow, but seriously cool to see random people bring up strange bugs and Arthur going "thanks! fixed in the next release." over and over again like clockwork.

7thaccount 7y ago

No, but I might add myself. Speaking of fast bug fixes. 8th is a commercial Forth-like language for embedded, desktop, server, and iOS/Android that is kind of like that. It is basically a small (few MB) binary that is a full REPL that can cross-compile your code into an encrypted binary. It has nice GUI, SQL, Rest, REPL,JSON/CSV/XML...etc support all built-in as well as a bunch of other goodies. Releases happen very regularly and reported bugs are fixed incredibly fast. There is a forum with a lot of activity from the fairly small user base. Probably not everyone's cup of tea, but I've had a blast playing with the free version. The professional version is like $250 and after your free upgrades wear out you can then upgrade for a reduced cost. Full source is also available in the Enterprise edition with an NDA. In some ways it has some similarities with K. Long story short to see hundreds of posts requesting some obscure feature of edge condition and seeing a reply a few hours later with "fixed". It seems to be a pretty mature language for one person to build. I have not bought a professional edition yet as I'm having fun with the free one and this is probably not something big corporate IT would like. If I start building enough tools at home, I might go in that direction. Also, no affiliation with the project, they just seem to get a lot of my wish list right. I really wish it was a free/open source project as I bet it would catch on more.

kick 7y ago
Yeah, I've heard of 8th! Absolutely sucks that it's proprietary, it's seriously cool. It's one of my favorite examples of how single-man dev "teams" are the most efficient.
- 7thaccount 7y ago
  Yeah, you get some advantages with a large language, but there is no coherant harmonizing force even with a BDFL like in Perl and Python. Arthur's work is seriously impressive and something to motivate me to write my own tools.