Hi there (a bit late, my bad) ; I've composed a short blog post about the language, comparing it with Clojure and Common Lisp: https://arkscript-lang.dev/blog/comparison-with-other-lisps/

I find this paper false/misleading. They just translated one algorithm in many languages, without using the language constructs or specificities to make the algorithm decent performant wise.

Also it doesn’t mean anything, as you aren’t just running your code. You are compiling/transpiling it, testing it, deploying it… and all those operations consume even more energy.

I’d argue that C/C++ projects use the most energy in term of testing due to the quantity of bugs it can present, and the amount of CPU time needed just to compile your 10-20k lines program. Just my 2 cents

Thanks for the idea, I’ll try to add a comparison page soon!

The vertical alignement is now fixed, I got lucky with bootstrap ; it looks way nicer, thanks!

« America, fuck yeah » takes a whole new meaning

I’ve been using Scala professionally for 3 years. I don’t know what I’m doing most of the time because we have a ton of implicites and monads and extension methods. I just know the general idea and can get where I want by reading types.

I’ve been creating a language for fun for nearly 6 years. I often don’t know what’s going on under the hood because it’s somewhat complex. I think this is normal for every language. You don’t have to know everything to be able to use it. You don’t have to write blog posts once a week about the language subtleties you found.

Why? What does it bring you? I’m genuinely curious

Is it an ad or is it related to technology?

I entirely agree. It all depends on context, preferences, goal and probably other things.

I found the article interesting even though I don't entirely agree with all of it!

Fine thanks! This might be another reason for me to finally switch to an iPhone

I understand the philosophy of not wanting to transfer your rights, but I don't understand what's bad about contributing to a project and having your code given to the community (as-in copyright transfer to the organisation). Would this be because the org/owner can just start selling the code or is there something that I'm missing?

That is, until the community reverse engineer the communication between the tablet and keyboard. It's through the 5 pins, serial iirc? The complicated part would be to produce/find a decent keyboard

I'm not using the thumb cluster for shift and other mods, but rather homerow mods. It takes a bit to get used to, but I feel like it is very confortable. I have S/shift and L/shift (tap/hold), so if I need to shift a key from the left hand I use the opposed hand to shift and vice versa. Also pressing both S and L at the same time will toggle caps lock which I find very convenient.

Homerow mods allow me to keep my fingers on/near the homerow and reduce A LOT hand movements.