miniblog.

It's weird how even pure languages tend to treat the Unix execution model as ambient state. Are there any PLs that define a main function like this? fn main(args, stdin, stdout, env) -> exit code

Are users more tolerant of a slow programming language if it has good multithreading or green threads? I'd be willing to use a PL with good ergonomics that runs at 0.5x speed if it's easy to saturate multiple threads. (PLs focusing on single-threaded performance are common!)

@aburka Interesting, today I learnt. I don't know the history of this syntax: there doesn't seem to be much precedent for ^ as a range in any PLs that I can think of.