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by jondgoodwin
2640 days ago
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Cone is an imperative, multi-paradigmatic language in the family of systems programming languages (C, C++, Rust, D). It is fundamentally statically-typed. However, a language that is too rigidly typed can sometimes degrade programmer productivity. Abstractions like variant types and various forms of type polymorphism can improve code flexibility and reuse, which is why I plan for Cone to include these features (the home page has a link to a page that describes this in more detail). High-level attributes of a language are always hard to get right, because terms mean different things to different people, but several responders do a better job than I did of explaining why concise and readable don't necessarily have to be contradictory goals, at least for me. My primary aim here is that code be maintainable. By concise, I am actually far more focused on how much of a function's logic can fit readably on the editor window without scrolling than I am the size of keywords. Certain common C++/Rust patterns feel unnecessarily verbose to me (e.g., borrowing a reference in Rust), and I am trying to incorporate syntactic patterns from a number of other languages that I feel encode the same intent consistently in a way that a programmer familiar with Cone will be able to process and edit more quickly. Of course, that's always a judgement call... |
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Keep it up, I will be following the progress.
> ...focused on how much of a function's logic can fit readably on the editor window without scrolling than I am the size of keywords
This seems like a silly reason, we have large widescreen high res monitors - C's curly braces were invented to fit inside 70 char by 90 char terminals. Lets just be honest with ourselves and say its because its what people generally like and/or are used to these days : )
I mean Pascal/Ada isn't all that bad - it just not trendy https://github.com/AdaDoom3/AdaDoom3/blob/master/Engine/neo-...