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I am always kind of surprised when I go to a landing page for a language and there isn't any actual code. This is one of my biggest complaints about the rust la
by staticassertion 7mo ago
I am always kind of surprised when I go to a landing page for a language and there isn't any actual code. This is one of my biggest complaints about the rust language page, it feels crazy to me that there's no code and I think this is just a ridiculous choice (and I know this has been brought up before).
The old page had a built-in sandbox. Go used to have a more "Front and center" sandbox too but at least it's there if you scroll down https://go.dev/ https://go.dev/
- chriswarbo 7mo ago> I am always kind of surprised when I go to a landing page for a language and there isn't any actual code. So, you're not surprised that this Om page has an extensive section called "Examples", right? https://www.om-language.com/#language__examples__ https://www.om-language.com/#language__examples__
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- staticassertion 7mo agoI didn't scroll that far, and I shouldn't have to.
- cess11 7mo agoThere is code, search for 'examples'. It concludes by implementing a fold: define { [Fold]<- { rearrange { rearrange { dequote choose quote Result pair pair pair {[Fold]<-} Function Result Remainder Remainder } {Result Remainder} dequote Function Base <-[terms] Source } {Function Base Source} } } { [Fold]<- {[literal]<-} {} {1 2 3} }
- dstanko 7mo agogreat example! as someone who writes a Fold function every day, this explains the power of the language very well. ;)
- cess11 7mo agoAs is clearly explained on the web page, this is not a programming language for everyday tasks, it's an early stage proof of concept that can be used to explore how computer science might be expressed in unusual ways. Implementing fold would be something of a milestone in such a language.
- pasquinelli 7mo agoi'm really not trying to be snarky or anything, but right at the top of the om page it describes the language as concatenative and homoiconic. without searching that or asking an llm, do you know what those terms mean? or what fold is? could be there's nothing wrong with the page and you're really just not the audience for it. hacker news has many currents, most of which don't interest me, and that's fine, i don't feel the need to weigh in on everything.
- robotresearcher 7mo agoThere is code. Small examples start halfway down the page, and there's one 20-line example. Not much, but it's not accurate to say there's none. It would be helpful to see any kind of motivation for the project though. Anything at all.
- oblio 7mo agoOn my phone that code is about 250+ lines down, probably 4-5 screens down. It basically doesn't exist as far as marketing is concerned.
- johnisgood 7mo agoSo it just needs a TOC.
- oblio 7mo agoNo, it needs a 5 line code snippet above the fold.
- johnisgood 7mo agoOr it can have a TOC. It only takes one tap.
- pasquinelli 7mo agomarketing isn't concerned, it's an experiment in programming languages. the attention of someone who needs to eyeball the syntax before they understand how to read it has zero value to a project like this.
- Anaminus 7mo agoOne time, this annoyed me so much that I made a website. https://anaminus.github.io/langding/ https://anaminus.github.io/langding/ om would fall under "Yes, must scroll".
- pasquinelli 7mo agosplashing code examples at the audience encourages superficial assessments of the language.