Re:Mun Programming Language
by mrec on Sunday October 06, 2019 @06:10PM
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From the Syntax section:
> We take inspiration from a scala of application, scripting, and systems programming languages
The word "scala" reads really oddly in that sentence; none of the English-language meanings of the word [1] fits, and to a technical reader it's just asking for confusion with the Scala language. Maybe replace with a clearer and less formal "bunch"?
The syntax shown looks very Rusty, and I believe this started as a thought experiment for Rust. Do you see value in keeping that link explicit? That is, using Mun as a prototyping language for early iteration, then "freezing" it to vanilla Rust with minimal syntax changes once happy with the result?
Also, if the goal here is fast iteration, it'd be interesting to see some ballpark figures for compilation times, which is one of Rust's major Achilles heels today.
> We take inspiration from a scala of application, scripting, and systems programming languages
The word "scala" reads really oddly in that sentence; none of the English-language meanings of the word [1] fits, and to a technical reader it's just asking for confusion with the Scala language. Maybe replace with a clearer and less formal "bunch"?
The syntax shown looks very Rusty, and I believe this started as a thought experiment for Rust. Do you see value in keeping that link explicit? That is, using Mun as a prototyping language for early iteration, then "freezing" it to vanilla Rust with minimal syntax changes once happy with the result?
Also, if the goal here is fast iteration, it'd be interesting to see some ballpark figures for compilation times, which is one of Rust's major Achilles heels today.
[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scala#English