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Improving programming language performance

by xnacly on 12/7/23, 1:31 PM with 16 comments

• by r2b2 on 12/10/23, 6:37 AM

  The syntax of your language is quite nice. I’d maybe change (for …) to (each …), (fun …) to (fn …), and (let …) to (def …) or (set …) depending on implementation details of variable assignment, but those are just aesthetic preferences :)

  I love '{thing}' for string interpolation.

  If you haven’t already, check out clojure, janet-lang, io-lang, and a library like lodash/fp for more syntax and naming inspiration.

  Keep building!

• by tromp on 12/10/23, 10:25 AM

  > reducing its execution time by 7.03 times or 703%.

  Shouldn't the latter be by 86 % ?

• by aidenn0 on 12/10/23, 6:25 AM

  Somewhat OT, but I cannot infer the semantics of let from the examples given. Among other things it seems to have indefinite scope.