I have a theory: Suppose I created a language Foo that printed execution time at termination:
$ ./hello
Hello World!
(Finished in 0.6 seconds)
I'm sure that Foo developers would be particularly sensitive to performance (for better and worse).
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I find it odd that people recommend Docker for sandboxing agentic coding tools. Isn't it easier to just create a separate user account on the machine?
It's an established security boundary, and viewing output is easy (just make the user's home directory world readable).
I'm trying to decide what program I should show on the home page of my PL.
Hello World is too simple to show much syntax. Fibonacci is OK but the reader may not know what print(fib(10)) should show.
Maybe print(greet("World")) is better? It gives you a function definition at least.
Playing with Claude and my new programming language has made me add features that it wants. I think they're reasonable.
`for method in methods` -- custom syntax error explaining that `method` is a reserved word
`echo 'println("hello world")' | garden` -- eval snippets from stdin