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Ask HN: Can you help me remember the name of a programming language?
I encountered this programming language nearly a year ago that was fairly new at the time. I have been doing web searches for new or emerging languages and looking through lists of known languages to no avail. The only thing I remember about it is that it was supposed to be like Go without some of the aspects of Go that the author hated. I want to say the name started with a "D".
- aheilbut 7y agoClose.. you must be thinking of "C"
- DangitBobby 7y agoOh wow, thank you for jogging my memory about this very esoteric language!
- rman666 7y agoSarcasm aside, was it D? See https://dlang.org https://dlang.org
- DangitBobby 7y agoI don't think so. If IIRC, it had the `:=` assignment operator for type inference.
- emilper 7y agoDelphi
- cable2600 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages#D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages#... Was it one of the above in the Wikipedia list?
- DangitBobby 7y agoI read the list and did not see anything that jogged my memory.
- byoung2 7y agohttps://dart.dev/ https://dart.dev/
- DangitBobby 7y agoThat's a negative. Thanks though.
- lone_haxx0r 7y agoNim, Zig, Odin?
- DangitBobby 7y agoHeeeyyyyy it was Odin! Thank you so much!
- lone_haxx0r 7y agoGlad to help.
- tobzuts 7y agoHere you go : https://vlang.io/ https://vlang.io/
- m33k44 7y agoWas it interpreted, compiled? Was it functional, imperative, logic oriented language?
- DangitBobby 7y agoCompiled. It was Odin.
- jblindsay 7y agoCrystal perhaps? Crystal Language: https://crystal-lang.org/reference/ https://crystal-lang.org/reference/
- DangitBobby 7y agoOkay, lone_haxx0r mentioned it. Odin. I was slightly off on the back-story, they made it because they were fed up with C++ and didn't want to just extend C. I guess the assessment of "Go without some of the aspects of Go that the author hated" was just projection on my part. Anyway, here's a link to the website if anyone is interested. https://odin-lang.org/docs/faq/#what-is-the-history-of-the-project https://odin-lang.org/docs/faq/#what-is-the-history-of-the-p...