XS Programming Language

7 points | by xs-lang 13 hours ago ago

2 comments

  • dnnddidiej 5 hours ago

    Very cool. Since you have memoize ... does that mean all values are immutable?

    Like the built in decorators. I think language design based on what people want to achieve rather than creating the most generic zoo of primitives is underexplored. So this is good.

    • tacostakohashi 2 hours ago

      Language design based on what people want to achieve: that's basically what php, perl, python, visual basic... many others are/were.

      It works pretty well!

      Then... what people want to achieve changes, maybe they want to write a web app instead of desktop, and then you're screwed. Perl was excellent when everything was text... but when things started being XML or JSON or whatever, less so.

      It's a fair point though, languages built around practicality have their place.