Arturo
Languages and libraries
programming language
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
5 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score +0.23.
Design: 2 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Nice functional spin on Rebol's clean syntax
From 1 comment
Great work — the functional spin on top of Rebol's clean syntax is really nicely done! Any chance you'll be adding something like the parse function? The ability to have…
tav on HN
Good to see Rebol-style syntax adopted
From 1 comment
great work, quite happy to see adoption of rebol's syntax
lulzx on HN
Objections
Another language is unnecessary
From 1 comment
But, but, but: why ANOTHER language??
kristiann_mz on HN
Lacks Rebol's literal forms for IPs, URLs, emails and dates
From 1 comment
Which is in fact Logo's syntax. I don't see any literal forms for IP addresses, URLs, e-mails, dates, @references and hashtags in Arturo, which are historically present in Rebol…
9214 on HN
Design of strings implicitly constructing datatypes is not qualitatively different from other languages
From 1 comment
Alright, but personally I fail to see how is that qualitatively different from all the other mainstream languages that use strings as a compensatory kitchen sink to encode…
9214 on HN
Requests
Add a parse function and dialect support
From 1 comment
Great work — the functional spin on top of Rebol's clean syntax is really nicely done! Any chance you'll be adding something like the parse function? The ability to have…
tav on HN
Standalone function reference page
From 1 comment
Great work — the functional spin on top of Rebol's clean syntax is really nicely done! Any chance you'll be adding something like the parse function? The ability to have…
tav on HN
Gtk GUI support and NetBSD builds
From 1 comment
Gtk GUI programming works? Also my platform of interest is NetBSD
jayp1418 on HN
Postgres driver
From 1 comment
Postgresql needs full IO support which is coming in 0.7.0, next major release. There is development branch with IO so if someone's interested, writing PostgreSQL driver should be…
rebolek on HN
Questions
What the arrow syntax (->) does
From 1 comment
So in this example: ``` loop 1..10 'x [ if? even? x -> print [x "is even"] else -> print [x "is odd"] ] ``` I can't find any reference for what the arrow is doing. It looks like…
Izkata on HN
Where even? is documented
From 1 comment
hey, I was looking for even? in the language wiki https://github.com/arturo-lang/arturo/wiki , as in: if? even? x -> print [x "is even"] but I couldn't find it in Arithmetic,…
bryanrasmussen on HN
What the LaTeX generation roadmap item means
From 1 comment
Looks great! Just one question: in the roadmap, what do you mean by "Implement LaTeX generation module"? You want to make a templating system like Sweave in R [0]? [0]…
S4M on HN
Alternatives named
Red
From 1 comment
Looks interesting. Good job! Another REBOL-inspired language is Red [0], which also looks interesting. Maybe I'll actually sit down and have a proper look one of these days. 0:…
gnud on HN
Rebol
From 1 comment
Well, I could argue... "why not?". Rebol - Arturo's ideological grandparent - is a great language (albeit not as well-known as it should be). And Arturo attempts to get the best…
stchacademy on HN
Tcl
From 1 comment
I had interest in Rebol and Red, but lost it. Lost the interest because of what you mention, but also because building algorithms with it imply a big cognitive load for me. Since…
libx on HN
LatexDSL for Nim
From 1 comment
related effort for a latex dsl in nim: https://github.com/Vindaar/LatexDSL
pietroppeter on HN