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No way, that's too soon! I only recently started working on a MoonScript fork[1][2], I'm not ready for HN! ;) My use case is integration with Awesome WM, and I

No way, that's too soon! I only recently started working on a MoonScript fork[1][2], I'm not ready for HN! ;) My use case is integration with Awesome WM, and I hope to bring MS up to modern standards (whatever they happen to be) in the process. The current MoonScript is in a really tight spot: the aging codebase doesn't get updated, there's no one leading the development, and the community has like 20 members tops. We need people! For both developing the language, discussing its design, and testing the changes. Feel free to drop by and say hi on Discord: https://discord.gg/Y75ZXrD https://discord.gg/Y75ZXrD Also, there's another effort aiming to modernize MS: a compiler written in C++: https://github.com/pigpigyyy/MoonPlus/ https://github.com/pigpigyyy/MoonPlus/ - it's new, but it already implements all of the MoonScript language - definitely worth taking a look at. [1] It started when I tried to add some FP conveniences to MS: https://github.com/leafo/moonscript/issues/407 https://github.com/leafo/moonscript/issues/407 [2] https://github.com/piotrklibert/AwesomeScript https://github.com/piotrklibert/AwesomeScript - nothing interesting yet, just a few ideas in the issues

leafo 7y ago
Thanks for your enthusiasm, but I just wanted to clarify that I'm still leading the development of the project. I'm happy to see other people's ideas about how the language could be different, but I'm going to be very conservative about any accepted changes. I have a lot of code running in production in MoonScript that I have no plans to rewrite, so I have no plans to make breaking changes to the language. I feel it has reached a level of stability with the syntax that I'm mostly happy with. I encourage you to try out other stuff with your fork though. Hope that explains. For others, the discord linked above is the official one, so feel free to stop by.

leafo 7y ago

Thanks for your enthusiasm, but I just wanted to clarify that I'm still leading the development of the project. I'm happy to see other people's ideas about how the language could be different, but I'm going to be very conservative about any accepted changes. I have a lot of code running in production in MoonScript that I have no plans to rewrite, so I have no plans to make breaking changes to the language. I feel it has reached a level of stability with the syntax that I'm mostly happy with. I encourage you to try out other stuff with your fork though. Hope that explains. For others, the discord linked above is the official one, so feel free to stop by.