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The article is light on details, but as a polyglot programmer, I encourage him. I am an enthusiastic, but far from expert, Haskell programmer. I wonder if Bret
by mark_l_watson 4y ago
The article is light on details, but as a polyglot programmer, I encourage him.
I am an enthusiastic, but far from expert, Haskell programmer. I wonder if Brett is thinking of a more Python-like interpreted functional language?
- bslatkin 4y agoThank you! Imagine everything we like about Python, remove some warts, make it functional. It should feel familiar and appealing to a Python programmer.
- eternalban 4y agoBased on above it seems you want to test the hypothesis that 'there is a python-like functional language in the space of FP'. Is there anything ~technical you can share beyond desires and disappointments that leads you to believe this is a reasonable hypothesis?
- bslatkin 4y agoI've got a working interpreter and compiler for the initial language. I've had a few people take it for a spin and they were able to rapidly learn it and start contributing, despite having expressed frustration in trying FP languages in the past. All anecdotes for now!
- eternalban 4y agoAh, you already have it. Now we're all intrigued! Looking forward to the public release.
- ch4s3 4y agoI'm pretty deep in on Elixir, but I'd be quite interested to take a look.