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Jan 5, 2023 at 05:21
Writing a programming language? Challenge the design status quo:
An open letter to language designers: Kill your sacred cows.

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Futhark's design is deliberately trying to stay simple to keep long term design sustainable. The author also has an interesting discussion of relative versus absolute paths in import syntax, and how relative paths can make local analysis easier.
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I've added an eval button to the website of my programming language! It's a been a lot of work to lock down appropriately. It still needs some UI polish but it's so nice to be able to try snippets immediately.
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Delighted to see that Typescript 7 is moving to conventional LSP for its IDE services!
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Earlier this year, the TypeScript team announced that we’ve been porting the compiler and language service to native code to take advantage of better raw performance, memory usage, and parallelism. This effort (codenamed “Project Corsa”, and soon “TypeScript 7.0”) has been a significant undertaking, but we’ve made big strides in the past few months. We’re […]