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by chc4 3808 days ago
Seconding Urbit since I'm a giant fanboy. It's not a new programming languages as much as new computer, internet, everything. And it's a lot of fun to play with - Hoon isn't nearly as difficult as it looks :)

As insane as a lot of it seems, most of it are just logical conclusions from a few base ideas: what would computers look like if you owned your own data, if it was all built on top of a purely functional VM backed by bignum binary trees, if you could replace all the mistakes made over the years (nonversioned file systems, untyped shells, manually serializing data structures)