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> a specification at this point would only serve to have other people bike shed about syntax, features, etc. It makes little sense to announce a language with
by Rochus 3y ago
> a specification at this point would only serve to have other people bike shed about syntax, features, etc.
It makes little sense to announce a language with a lot of details over so many years without providing a decent specification. Either the author is interested in feedback, then a specification or language report is the established vehicle among language designers, or he is not interested in feedback, which raises the question why he publishes any details at all.
> It takes a very template focused mindset and uses the features of the language
But as it seems that's a focus point of the language; why otherwise the author would take the effort to even modify structure declarations with compile time expressions.
> that it focuses on the way memory is mapped (similarly to how C does it)
What do you mean by that? And is this really a unique selling point if it is similar to C?
- mariusor 3y agoI offered a very bird's eye view of what a newbie understood from the language, not a "unique selling point" because, like I keep failing to make you see, Blow is not trying to "sell it" to anyone.
- Rochus 3y agoSee e.g. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/selling%20point https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/selling%20point > Blow is not trying to "sell it" to anyone. For that, he is doing a lot of promotion for his new language with all the youtube sessions and blog posts about it.
- mariusor 3y agoYou see promotion, I see a guy that's excited about his project trying to give educational content to the next generation of developers. If it's promotion for anything I think it's rather for his sokoban like game.