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> But otherwise I don't totally get the point of this post. Reverse psychology? "Please don't look at my language!" A quick googling finds this: https://har

by xscott 5y ago

> But otherwise I don't totally get the point of this post. Reverse psychology? "Please don't look at my language!" A quick googling finds this: https://harelang.org/ https://harelang.org/ My first impression is that it's somewhere in the trade space around Go and Zig.

bumblebritches5 5y ago
CPLX 5y ago
> Reverse psychology Seems to have been effective here on HN. It worked on me.
michaelpb 5y ago
There's a social media trick where you make some really obvious mistake (eg pronounce "Mario" as "mah-RYE-oh" in a video) and then rely on people's "well akshully" in the comments causing you to go viral. Regardless if it's intentional or not, it's probably working since this already has 18 comments after only being posted a half hour ago hahah
- cercatrova 5y ago
  > Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law.
staticassertion 5y ago
I feel like Drew doesn't need to try a reverse psychology approach. He could just post it. Anyway, I definitely have plenty of thoughts about this language but I don't think anyone working on it would care, so I'll refrain.
rurban 5y ago
and it uses qbe as compiler backend, which is very interesting.
rowanG077 5y ago
I read the first design principle and I'm already done. The programmer should the last person to trust.
mariusor 5y ago
I can't tell why you're being this petty. The man explicitly asked for people to respect his wish of the project being public but not advertised. If a quick search leads anyone to find it, why not leave it at that? The ones who are interested will find it. All you did was to be be contrarian for no good reason. And to answer parent's question with my own impression: the post serves to tell people like me (that tangentially knew the language is in development) that work is being done, and if any of us has more than a cursory interest, they can get in touch to help. It also serves to tell people that are not immediately interested in helping that spreading the word about the project is not encouraged. I can't think of why there needs to be more of a "point" than this.
- staticassertion 5y ago
  There doesn't have to be a point. It just seemed really odd, so I pointed out that it was odd. I also refrained from commenting on the language as I had understood it.
ocdtrekkie 5y ago
So like... Drew Streisand Effect'd himself here? Writing a big post about your secret language to a tech crowd seems like a really bad idea. People like puzzles.

by xscott 5y ago

bumblebritches5 5y ago

CPLX 5y ago

> Reverse psychology Seems to have been effective here on HN. It worked on me.

michaelpb 5y ago

There's a social media trick where you make some really obvious mistake (eg pronounce "Mario" as "mah-RYE-oh" in a video) and then rely on people's "well akshully" in the comments causing you to go viral. Regardless if it's intentional or not, it's probably working since this already has 18 comments after only being posted a half hour ago hahah

cercatrova 5y ago
> Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law.

staticassertion 5y ago

I feel like Drew doesn't need to try a reverse psychology approach. He could just post it. Anyway, I definitely have plenty of thoughts about this language but I don't think anyone working on it would care, so I'll refrain.

rurban 5y ago

and it uses qbe as compiler backend, which is very interesting.

rowanG077 5y ago

I read the first design principle and I'm already done. The programmer should the last person to trust.

mariusor 5y ago

I can't tell why you're being this petty. The man explicitly asked for people to respect his wish of the project being public but not advertised. If a quick search leads anyone to find it, why not leave it at that? The ones who are interested will find it. All you did was to be be contrarian for no good reason. And to answer parent's question with my own impression: the post serves to tell people like me (that tangentially knew the language is in development) that work is being done, and if any of us has more than a cursory interest, they can get in touch to help. It also serves to tell people that are not immediately interested in helping that spreading the word about the project is not encouraged. I can't think of why there needs to be more of a "point" than this.

staticassertion 5y ago
There doesn't have to be a point. It just seemed really odd, so I pointed out that it was odd. I also refrained from commenting on the language as I had understood it.

ocdtrekkie 5y ago

So like... Drew Streisand Effect'd himself here? Writing a big post about your secret language to a tech crowd seems like a really bad idea. People like puzzles.