cmontella

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by cmontella 11d ago
Done, see reply to sibling.
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by cmontella 11d ago
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mech-lang/mech/codex/pypy-... I added PyPy and Mojo. PyPy performs valiantly compared to Cpython -- even better than LuaJIT. I'm sure someone skilled at writing it could
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by cmontella 12d ago
I think this is true and agree. But also, the bar was pretty low before Julia, and since Julia it's been raised by languages like Futhark and Halide.
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by cmontella 12d ago
I did some Julia benchmarking over the weekend against a bunch of languages if anyone is interested. The workload is an EKF on an Apple M1, I'm trying to do as many as possible in parallel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com&
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by cmontella 4mo ago
Last couple weeks I've been building a new website to showcase the document formatting capabilities of my programming language Mech. It's out now: https://mech-lang.org/post/2026-05-11-version-0.3/ Mech
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by cmontella 5mo ago
I feel like this is a good place to bring up the "Have You Tried Rubbing a Database on It?" conf, which deals with this sort of topic. If you'd like to read about the intersection between Databases and X, where X is games, ro
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by cmontella 6mo ago
If it could somehow only work if I maintain the kitchen sink and counter, then maybe I'd be motivated to keep the house clean. The gacha game trains you.
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by cmontella 6mo ago
haha right! I think if I were to make Rocky though, there are a number of more geometric symbols. Maybe like ╭⬟╮
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by cmontella 6mo ago
lol that's funny, I have been working seriously [1] on a feature like this after first writing about it jokingly [2] earlier this year. The joke was the assistant is a cat who is constantly sabotaging you, and you have to take care of
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by cmontella 6mo ago
I think that's exactly what is meant, and it's a great example. The two places where literate programming have shined most are 1) documentation because it's a natural fit there and you can get away with having little programs
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by cmontella 6mo ago
I agree with this. I've been a fan of literate programming for a long time, I just think it is a really nice mode of development, but since its inception it hasn't lived up to its promise because the tooling around the concept is
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by cmontella 7mo ago
Also I just became aware of this list: https://people.futureofcoding.org
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by cmontella 7mo ago
I remember when Windows Vista had to contend against the same allegations when it was released. It did have a higher memory footprint, but a lot of the ridiculous usage numbers people had published were the SuperFetch just precaching common
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by cmontella 7mo ago
Contemporary PL designers who have inspired my programming language design journey the most are people like Chris Granger (Eve), Jamie Brandon (Eve/Imp/others), Bret Victor (Dynamicland), Chris Lattner (Swift / Mojo), Simon P
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by cmontella 9mo ago
I'm building something like Lua for robots, you might want to check it out if you're looking to collaborate. I didn't know about Lua when I started it, but I did end up at an "everything is a table" metaphor because
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by cmontella 9mo ago
Thanks for the kind words and keeping the joke going, I laughed at many of these responses. I think they'll make it in to v2.0 which should be out by 4/1 It makes sense that the first thing I'd get to the front page of HN is
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by cmontella 10mo ago
You might be interested in following my project, as I'm trying to support exactly that nexus of features for those applications! https://github.com/mech-lang/mech https://www.hytradboi.com/2022&#x2
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by cmontella 11mo ago
> problem statement, [0] given as natural language, (modulo some inequalities and example program inputs/outputs) I also see two graphics, and several formal mathematical expressions. You can't modulo away all the not-natural l
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by cmontella 11mo ago
I think it's the exact opposite -- LLMs have revealed the precise utility of programming languages. For decades the "English as programming language" has been the holy grail of language designers. From COBOL to SQL to AppleSc
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by cmontella 11mo ago
> this sounds more like an artsclass to me. Indeed, it is, and that's the point! Being interfaces to computers for humans, programming languages sit at the intersection of computer science and humanities. Lots of people like to trea
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by cmontella 11mo ago
I know about this one as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/1ioij... but the author seems to have taken it private for now. I think he's the Gren author, which is a fork of Elm.
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by cmontella 11mo ago
I worked on this project so I can give some insight. The main reason we didn't keep working on it was it was VC funded and we didn't have a model for making money in the short term. At the end we were pursuing research related to
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by cmontella 1y ago
Glad someone found it useful! It's at least represents a more fleshed out working example, and it's in a little module so it's pretty self-contained and easy to read through. > I'm assuming this isn't your first
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by cmontella 1y ago
Super cool! I just happened to write one of these last week, I posted it here if anyone wants to take a look at another implementation: https://github.com/mech-lang/mech/releases/tag/v0.2.58-beta The cod
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by cmontella 1y ago
No, I mean these low bus factor languages don't really die as long as the BDFL keeps working on it. Biggar keeps Dark going through thick and thin. Chiusano likewise with Unison. Even if their Unison public benefit corp runs out of mon
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by cmontella 1y ago
Agreed in hindsight, but at the same time there was no place else where a couple of 20-somethings could grab a cup of coffee with a VC and walk away with a handshake deal for $2 million dollars. That just didn't happen in Denver et al
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by cmontella 1y ago
You just have to look at the landscape at the time. There was a lot of money to be had if you promised the sun and moon, because $2 million wasn't a lot compared to the potential upside. The problem was, and this is what Paul found out
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by cmontella 1y ago
Congrats on Dark for making it this far! Relevent timeline: https://blog.darklang.com/dark-announces-3-5m-in-seed-financ... (2019) https://blog.darklang.com/dark-and-the-long-term/ (2020 - in which the
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by cmontella 1y ago
Haha yeah! When I was a kid before we could afford a computer, I would type magazine programs out on a type writer. I remember that I had to keep starting over because I would make a mistake, but that was okay because the program was short
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by cmontella 1y ago
Lol this was my favorite thing to do at CMU. Except it wasn't luxury goods, it was all the textbooks and computer equipment they would leave behind.

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