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Too sad the WebIDE link on https://picat-lang.org/ https://picat-lang.org/ doesn't work, I would have been happy to try it with minimal fuss. It seems to be a v

by aredox 1y ago

Too sad the WebIDE link on https://picat-lang.org/ https://picat-lang.org/ doesn't work, I would have been happy to try it with minimal fuss. It seems to be a very nice langage for niche but important use cases.

bmacho 1y ago
The language runtime is very small (6.5MB binary, 4MB library, examples, docs) on Windows.
bmacho 1y ago
You can try it out in Google colab[0] which is a free computer for people with Google accounts. You are allowed to anything that's legal, not a file-server, not crypto and not chess[1]. You can download and unpack it with !wget -c "https://picat-lang.org/download/picat39_linux64.tar.gz" > /dev/null 2>&1 # 3.4MB so it's probably fine to download it every day !tar -xvzf "picat39_linux64.tar.gz" -C . > /dev/null 2>&1 !echo 'picat binary is at /content/Picat/picat' You can create a file by %%shell cat <<MultiString > welcome.pi main => print(" Welcome to PICAT’s world! \n "). main(Args) => print(" Welcome to PICAT’s world! \n"), foreach (Arg in Args) printf("%s \n", Arg) end. MultiString and run it as !/content/Picat/picat welcome a b c I don't think that Picat supports the REPL workflow, even just defining functions on the fly. You have to put your functions into files (fix me). The official guide is at [2]. I've created an example notebook at [3] (although you shouldn't use people's notebooks especially if they are mutable: they might have access to your Google Drive files, or use up your resources). [0] : https://colab.google.com/ https://colab.google.com/ [1] : https://research.google.com/colaboratory/faq.html https://research.google.com/colaboratory/faq.html [2] : https://picat-lang.org/download/picat_guide_html/picat_guide.html#x1-370002 https://picat-lang.org/download/picat_guide_html/picat_guide... [3] : https://colab.research.google.com/gist/bmacho/b0327ec63d1f509574a999e7434be367/try_picat.ipynb https://colab.research.google.com/gist/bmacho/b0327ec63d1f50...
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- bmacho 1y ago
  Colab opening notebooks from gist fails me after some repetitions. It seems it goes through my computer (Google fetches it with javascript), and Microsoft rate limits me. Then it works again from private browser or after a cooldown period.

by aredox 1y ago

bmacho 1y ago

The language runtime is very small (6.5MB binary, 4MB library, examples, docs) on Windows.

bmacho 1y ago

You can try it out in Google colab[0] which is a free computer for people with Google accounts. You are allowed to anything that's legal, not a file-server, not crypto and not chess[1]. You can download and unpack it with !wget -c "https://picat-lang.org/download/picat39_linux64.tar.gz" > /dev/null 2>&1 # 3.4MB so it's probably fine to download it every day !tar -xvzf "picat39_linux64.tar.gz" -C . > /dev/null 2>&1 !echo 'picat binary is at /content/Picat/picat' You can create a file by %%shell cat <<MultiString > welcome.pi main => print(" Welcome to PICAT’s world! \n "). main(Args) => print(" Welcome to PICAT’s world! \n"), foreach (Arg in Args) printf("%s \n", Arg) end. MultiString and run it as !/content/Picat/picat welcome a b c I don't think that Picat supports the REPL workflow, even just defining functions on the fly. You have to put your functions into files (fix me). The official guide is at [2]. I've created an example notebook at [3] (although you shouldn't use people's notebooks especially if they are mutable: they might have access to your Google Drive files, or use up your resources). [0] : https://colab.google.com/ https://colab.google.com/ [1] : https://research.google.com/colaboratory/faq.html https://research.google.com/colaboratory/faq.html [2] : https://picat-lang.org/download/picat_guide_html/picat_guide.html#x1-370002 https://picat-lang.org/download/picat_guide_html/picat_guide... [3] : https://colab.research.google.com/gist/bmacho/b0327ec63d1f509574a999e7434be367/try_picat.ipynb https://colab.research.google.com/gist/bmacho/b0327ec63d1f50...

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bmacho 1y ago
Colab opening notebooks from gist fails me after some repetitions. It seems it goes through my computer (Google fetches it with javascript), and Microsoft rate limits me. Then it works again from private browser or after a cooldown period.