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Yes, on 3 May 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23055793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23055793 "Is APL Dead? Not anymore"
by gerikson 5y ago
Yes, on 3 May 2020:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23055793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23055793
"Is APL Dead? Not anymore"
- mlochbaum 5y agoBelieve it or not, the APL world's changed a lot since then. I still consider APL dead, but there are strong signs of rebirth. APL dialects April[0] and KAP[1] are improving rapidly, and my own offshoot BQN[2] has gone from prototype to a full language. All of these are open source and made to work with the Unix ecosystem. While the K language isn't as close to APL, ngn/k[3] is following a similar trajectory. This year we created a Discord/Matrix forum[4] (bridged together) for array languages, which has hundreds of members and a few conversations per day at the slowest. The Array Cast was featured prominently here when the first episode aired[5] and is also worthy of note: they say they now have thousands of subscribers. [0] https://github.com/phantomics/april https://github.com/phantomics/april [1] https://github.com/lokedhs/array https://github.com/lokedhs/array [2] https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/ https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/ [3] https://codeberg.org/ngn/k https://codeberg.org/ngn/k [4] https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/community/forums.html https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/community/forums.html [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27209093 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27209093
- 7thaccount 5y agoThanks for all you do! I can't wait until one of these languages reaches a 1.0 milestone.