Lucid – the origin story

[rutenspitz]

https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2020/08/11/lucid-the-origin-story/

[pottertheotter]

In case others are wondering, this is about Lucid, the "dataflow programming language designed" [1], not the unicorn startup [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_(programming_language) [2] https://www.golucid.co/

[msla → pottertheotter]

And here I thought it was about the company behind XEmacs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEmacs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_Inc%2e

[waiseristy → msla]

And here I was thinking about the automotive startup!

https://lucidmotors.com/

[clouddrover → waiseristy]

The Lucid Air is quite impressive:

https://www.motortrend.com/cars/lucid/air/2021/2021-lucid-ai...

[thayne → waiseristy]

It is quite an overused name.

[082349872349872 → thayne]

TIL it literally means "shiny", so if one wished to name a company or project after the new shiny, it would be something like Novum Lucidum?

(Incidentally, the "new idea manure spreader" is a thing.)

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from lux, Latin for light. Similarly, lucent, pellucid, lucifer (light bearer).

[pjmlp → msla]

That was my first thought as well.

[zeveb → msla]

Same here, particularly with the latest release of GNU Emacs.

[klik99]

Lucid represents to me a huge untapped area of growth for new programming languages. It's been a huge inspiration on the DSP language I've been working on: https://intonal.io/ (currently working on more examples and documentation)

I encourage anyone interested to read Bill Wadge's book on Lucid: http://worrydream.com/refs/Wadge%20-%20Lucid,%20the%20Datafl...

and check out one of the implementations of the language https://code.google.com/archive/p/plucid/ or https://github.com/billwadge/pyLucid

It's an eye opening experience

[jweir]

Zélus is a modern language inspired in part by Lucid. I have been intrigued by this language, but have yet to get the time to try it out.

https://zelus.di.ens.fr/

[herodotus → jweir]

Zelus is partly inspired by a language called Lucid Synchrone which is not the language discussed in the original article.

[bade → herodotus]

Lucid Synchrome was inspired by this Lucid