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I've been writing about my first impressions of the language here: https://ianthehenry.com/posts/janet-game/ https://ianthehenry.com/posts/janet-game/ Not a w
by ianthehenry 5y ago
I've been writing about my first impressions of the language here:
https://ianthehenry.com/posts/janet-game/ https://ianthehenry.com/posts/janet-game/
Not a whole lot of content yet, but I plan to keep going with it.
I am pretty firmly in the Haskell/OCaml "let me program with types" camp for most development, but it's a great to have a little scripting language to reach for instead of bash or Python or Perl. Using Janet (coming from Python) reminds me a bit of:
https://xkcd.com/353/ https://xkcd.com/353/
Except... without the rich standard library :)
- spsesk117 5y agoThanks for the link, I'll definitely check it out! What actually piqued my interest was the surface impression of something like a Lispier Perl/Python.
- CraigJPerry 5y agoYour writing style is really enjoyable, I binged the 3 posts and really enjoyed, especially the macros post
- actuallyalys 5y agoI've thought about using Janet for a game, but there's more examples of people using love2d plus Fennel so I'm more likely to use that combination for my future Lisp game experiments. (Fennel is similar to Janet and created by the same person, but compiles to Lua.)