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by m00s3 3114 days ago
Possible conflict with the name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language)
2 comments
HumanDrivenDev 3114 days ago
Very appropriate, since googles go did the exact same thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)

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matthewmueller 3114 days ago
Hmm, good catch. Let's see how it plays out :-)
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carapace 3114 days ago
I came here to say the same thing in re: the name conflict with Joy PL. I'm currently working on a Joy interpreter. I'm just getting it ready to post to PyPI (it's implemented in Python.)

It's pretty obscure, but I have high hopes for the language. It has some amazing qualities.

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matthewmueller 3114 days ago
Awesome!

I thought about it a little more and I don't think there should be an issue. This project is a compiler, not a language – Go is the language. It's analogous to Javascript and Babel.

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carapace 3113 days ago
Weird, I thought I deleted that comment.

Yeah, I don't actually think it will be a problem in practice. (And anyway I refer to my interpreter as "Joypy".)

It was sort of a knee-jerk reaction to seeing the name.

BTW, awesome idea and project! I hope it gets traction (at least until WASM "hits", eh?)

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nerdponx 3114 days ago
Why not call it JoyGo or JoyJS or Go2js or something? No reason to cause name (and command line) confusion just because you like a name.
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Sir_Cmpwn 3114 days ago
Joy is coming up on 15 years without a release, there should probably be a statute of limitations on this sort of thing.
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shabbyrobe 3114 days ago
Alas, Manfred von Thun is no longer with us. Seems unlikely there will be another release.
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petecox 3114 days ago
Manfred taught me mathematical logic back in the mid 90s. It was only much later browsing functional programming topics that I discovered his language and that he had passed away.

RIP.

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carapace 3114 days ago
What was he like?
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JustSomeNobody 3114 days ago
I disagree. You'll end up with new languages using the names of older languages. Besides, software can at some point be done.
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Sir_Cmpwn 3114 days ago
Software can also fade into irrelevance, which is what has happened to Joy.
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a-nikolaev 3114 days ago
Joy is a mathematical language similar to lambda calculus. It's getting old very slowly, slower that this compiler.
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weberc2 3114 days ago
Guaranteed unique project name generator: `uuidgen`
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