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by cpurdy 4y ago
Adding a type system to an existing language that was never intended to have that type system is not simple. And in Go, the language seems designed to largely eject its type system at the earliest opportunity that doesn't negatively im
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by cpurdy 4y ago
Please, can't you just think of all of the children dying from windmill cancer?
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by cpurdy 4y ago
“We’re about six years into this, and we’re just now building the actual project we intended to build,” Purdy said. “It’s the longest road to a minimal viable product you’ve ever heard of!”
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by cpurdy 7y ago
> "I'm really curious to hear what you saw was missing in Kotlin for serverless cloud that made you go "We need a new language"." I should start by explaining that when we say "serverless", we're n
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by cpurdy 7y ago
> "You mention serverless and the cloud a lot" Yes. The fairly rigorous requirements from "serverless cloud" are what originally drove us to design a new runtime model, and that new runtime model then drove us to desi
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by cpurdy 7y ago
Yes, the xtclang.org site redirects there for the time being. (It's a lot easier to maintain a reasonable-looking landing page on blogspot than on github.) Peace, Cameron.
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by cpurdy 7y ago
> "I love the concepts talked about, but you didn't give me enough to convert me into a believer now." Hi Tim - I think that's a good thing at this stage. We aren't ready to have a large number of developers actu
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by cpurdy 7y ago
> "95% ... This is an awfully high number. Anyone care to give their best guess as to what the actual number is for companies in general?" The numbers that managing directors have shared with me are much higher than that, and t
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by cpurdy 7y ago
"Whomever [sic] named this language is a moron." That would be this moron. I would have chosen a different name, but they were all taken.
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by cpurdy 7y ago
> "I would hope that someone who decides to create a language would spend some time studying a lot of languages, especially those that came out in the past ten years." Yes, I would hope the same thing. Before designing Ecstasy,