Lamdu project
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The Lamdu project is excited to announce its new 0.8 release!
This release includes the first opensource internationalized IDE for a general purpose language.
It also includes many new features, UX improvements and bugfixes.
github.com/lamdu/lamdu/re…
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We encourage you to play with this release and start solving some Euler Project questions, write some microservices, or just toy around 😊
Please report your experience with Lamdu, your feedback is very valuable to us.
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If you have any questions about installation, use, or just generally want to chat about the future of
structural programming, please reach us at gitter.im/lamdu/lamdu
Happy structural hacking!
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The language that (almost) all programmers use
Can you guess what it is?
youtube.com/watch?v=2yGHk9…
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Lamdu project retweetledi
Tree editors are a common alternative when you explore the Lisp/functional programming landscape. Some examples are:
1/ Cirru: cirru.org
2/ Lamdu: lamdu.org
3/ Luna (DAGs): luna-lang.org
4/ Pure Data (DAGs): puredata.info
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True!
Lamdu tries to combine the best of both:
Writer can choose to specify type or allow it to be inferred.
Reader can choose to see verbose types, or concise code.
See this video about "Steady Typing"
youtu.be/viF1bVTOO6k
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Moxie Marlinspike@moxie
For example, even simple features like "type inference" feel like misplaced priorities to me. People say "it's annoying I have to write String foo = new String()," but realistically, you're more often writing "String foo = bar.getBaz()" If that becomes "val foo = bar.getBaz()"
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@Iceland_jack Makes sense.
That's why ; is the native name for monadic bind in Lamdu.
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Don't miss our new video!
Steady typing: A friendlier UX for static types.
youtu.be/viF1bVTOO6k
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Once structured editing is unlocked, the list of useful features and benefits is endless
twitter.com/hillelogram/st…
Inactive; Bluesky is @hillelwayne(dot)com@hillelogram
Unpopular opinion: text is actually a really bad medium for storing source code Text source code should be a view of the truth, not the source of truth. I should be able to freely switch between whatever views I want.
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No longer will you have to write a library from scratch just so non English programmers can use it.
Everyone will be able to collaborate on a shared program.
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Natural language support (i18n) for program editing is coming!
The program will be editable in any of the available languages.
Program entities are attached to reusable tags that have translations in each language.
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Lamdu has a new video, too!
Watch Lamdu's accepted submission to @liveprog2018
youtube.com/watch?v=skhP6L…
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Lamdu has a first release! Check it out at github.com/lamdu/lamdu/re…
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@tomaspetricek The Lamdu project focuses on interactive and immediate feedback as you structurally edit your program.
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I'm looking for references: In Smalltalk, programming was seen as "interacting with computer", not "producing a textual program". What other languages and tools focus more on interaction than on code?
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We believe so too. twitter.com/McLean0/status…
Tim McLean@McLean0
Higher up the stack: the programmer head => code-in-editor gap Programming languages are UIs for compilers. It strikes me that humanity may be capable of compiler UX better than "edit a bunch of text files, and get your punctuation right, damn it". That remains to be seen though
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