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The Beef Programming Language
- sema4hacker 1y agoAny time I see a new language being promoted, what I really need to see is proof why I should use it. Not a list of features, not Hello World. I wish there were an ISO-standard specification of about 10 non-trivial programming problems, each with a best-of-show implementation in all the popular languages, so a newly proposed language could demo why their 10 solutions might be considered better than other languages. For example: 1. A compiler for a small language. 2. A text editor. 3. An assembler. 4. A rendering engine for a subset of HTML. 5. A regex processor. 6. A ray tracer. 7. An online store. 8. A video editor. 9. A game. 10. A payroll system. If I could see Beef's solution to those 10 problems, side-by-side with other languages' solutions, that might compel me to seriously consider Beef.
- gnabgib 1y agoThis isn't all that new, it's been submitted 12 times since 2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=beeflang.org https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=beeflang.org
- sema4hacker 1y agoAlthough I hadn't heard of it until today, I now see their faq says "Work on the language and the IDE started in September 2014".