newgame

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by newgame 13y ago
> The trigger might have to be a little different The "dot-autocompletion" has a pretty good usability in my opinion. You write down the name of the variable, enter a dot and you get a filtered list of methods that "make
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by newgame 13y ago
There is 'This Week in Rust': http://cmr.github.io/blog/categories/this-week-in-rust/
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Thoughts on upcoming programming languages(eugenkiss.com)
2 points by newgame 15y ago|0 comments
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by newgame 16y ago
Maybe, in a couple of years, javascript (or any language like coffescript that compiles to javascript) will fit your needs, especially regarding the control flow problem. Here's an excerpt of a blog post ( http://blog.mozilla.com/dherman/20
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by newgame 16y ago
Here's a thread from the forums regarding love2d+luajit: http://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2409 Seems to be somehow possible to get it working. It is not officially supported, though. I guess as luajit matures there is a
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by newgame 16y ago
Yes, there is. Would you provide us with a link or some more information?
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by newgame 16y ago
I concur with your points. These are some of the problems I had, too, coming from a python background. To add to your list: the # operator confuses a lot of people as can be seen on the mailing list (although its semantics are well-defined
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by newgame 16y ago
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6095867,00.html
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by newgame 16y ago
Just a remark. The others are (by their own descriptions) micro-frameworks, suitable for smaller applications with 10 URLs or so. I don't think the attribute micro relates to the size of the projects you can create with these frameworks
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by newgame 16y ago
I'd like to add that I already count Javascript as a "big language" as I wrote: As we all know C, C++, C# and Java are these big mainstream languages of today with “recent” additions Python, Ruby, Javascript and, especially in the Apple wo
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by newgame 16y ago
What I meant by that is that PHP is admittedly used widely on the web but almost nonexistent in other "niches" like game programming, kernel programming, artificial intelligence, high performance computing etc. I'm thinking of the ecologica
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by newgame 16y ago
Yes, you are absolutely right. In fact I had started a chapter about the "far future" where I wanted to elaborate more on the computer architecture change and its effect on programming languages. But I thought the scope would become too lar
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The next big language(eugenkiss.com)
65 points by newgame 16y ago|65 comments
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by newgame 16y ago
Well, that is highly subjective of course but I give you some examples: - The fact that the syntax is almost constantly of this form (function arguments) and that you can create sophisticated "blocks" out of a small set of language featur
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by newgame 16y ago
I don't know about your niece, but if I'd be 12 again I think Scheme would have been ideal because the syntax is actually very easy and the language is very explicit (that's important for someone without programming experience). She, of co