Yeah, for me with a USB headset, the audio will go noisy about two minutes into a video / podcast. It clears up if I restart and doesn't happen when playing to the internal speakers.
Yeah, I was concerned about the creativity thing early one, but both of my kids build random stuff from a sea of parts. Occasionally my older kid would decide to build a set again and be frustrated when they couldn't find the part they needed.
As a family, we have a couple of the ninjago city sets, those are largely intact, but the kids play with them.
The minifigures can be a little bit of a problem, they seem to trigger an instinct to collect unique items. My kid will ask for a set so they can get one (or more) of the minifigures in it.
As an example of a use case, "Gerrit Code Review"[1] is written in Java and uses prolog for the submit rules.[2]
I haven't looked into the implementation. But taking a brief glance now, it looks interesting. They appear to be translating Prolog to Java via a WAM representation[3]. The compiler (prolog-cafe) is written in prolog and bootstrapped into Java via swi-prolog.
I don't know why compilation is necessary, it seems like an interpreter would be fast enough for that use case, but I'd love to take it apart and see how it works.
Pretty sure all of Baen's books are DRM free, and they offer virtually every ebook format around. They even used to include CDs with their hardbacks that would would include a huge subset of their collection. But they aren't a retailer, they're a publisher, so you're only getting the titles they publish.
I mainly moved on to Python because the startup time for scripts seemed to be a lot worse for Perl. I was a heavy Perl user in the 90's and early 2000's.
Congratulations on having a working language. You put a lot more effort into documentation than I have, but my language is just for me. (https://github.com/dunhamsteve/newt)
You might be interested in checking out Advent of Code (https://adventofcode.com/) to exercise your language. I had fun doing that with mine.
Also, there is a programming language development discord if that's your thing and you want to discuss your project with like-minded folks: https://discord.com/invite/4Kjt3ZE
> No tooling (LSP, debugger, etc.)
If you don't want to do a full LSP yet, you can get far with simple highlighting and scraping the output of the compiler for errors. I'm also dumping some additional information (top level names / types) as json to facilitate completion and type on hover.
> Is context-oriented programming solving a real problem or creating busywork?
Not sure. This kind of reminds me of dynamic scoping, something that seems to come up in languages that don't support. Go pushes contexts through as additional arguments, and Java thread local variables cover cases that look like dynamic scoping to me.
> Should I focus on making it fast OR making the stdlib useful?
I would go with whatever sounds fun and interesting to you. You'll probably want examples of what you want to make faster if you go with the former.
> Is 1-based indexing a dealbreaker for you?
Not a huge deal, but that was surprising to me in Lua. I adapted to it, but it did cause a little bit of awkwardness in some code I wrote that decoded a binary file format (realm database).
> Would arbitrary precision by default bother you for a general-purpose language?
I only glanced at it, but it looks like the user can choose IEEE if they want. It's nice to have options and few languages have this option.
Thanks — really appreciate you taking a look and sharing links.
Advent of Code is a great idea. I’ll try a few puzzles with SFX to exercise the stdlib and find awkward edges in the language and runtime.
Good call on the tooling approach. Emitting JSON for top-level names/types and scraping compiler errors sounds like a pragmatic first step before doing a full LSP. I’ll probably add that to the build output so editors can consume it easily.
I hadn’t thought to compare Situations to dynamic scoping/thread-locals that way — that’s a useful lens. My goal is to keep the behavior explicit enough that it doesn’t become mysterious, but your point about clarity is well taken; I’ll document the trade-offs more clearly.
1-based indexing has been a little surprising for folks (Lua vibes), and it does make some low-level tasks awkward. I’m keeping it because it simplifies some semantics, but I’ll watch for real usability problems and document where it trips people up.
About numbers — yes, FastNumber is available when you need IEEE performance. I want predictable defaults but not to lock users into one numeric model.
Thanks again for the pointers and the Discord link — I’ll check it out.
Is JSC less tested? I thought it was used in Safari, which has some market share.
I used bun briefly to run the output of my compiler, because it was the only javascript runtime that did tail calls. But I eventually added a tail call transform to my compiler and switched to node, which runs 40% faster for my test case (the compiler building itself).
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