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by bez00m 931 days ago
I've been following the Unison lang [1] for quite some. Wing seem to set similar goals? From the first glance Wing looks more polished, but there's "The Big Idea" behind Unison - is there something similar?

[1]: https://github.com/unisonweb/unison

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Unison is a pure functional language. That's important because it allows the whole "big idea" to work: you can change code, commit it to your Unison database and synchronize with your cloud without it ever breaking due to things like "different versions of a type" for example.

This language OTOH looks like TypeScript with seamless access to cloud resources, which while neat, is not comparable to what Unison brings to the table (it may, however, be what people actually want... time will tell).