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Re:Yatima: A programming language for the decentralized web by zozbot234 on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @12:33AM (#27430661)
> I also don't agree with your characterization of Haskell, Rust and OCaml as being "high-barrier-to-entry" compared to Python. Personally, I find languages like Python much harder to work with given how arbitrary and detail oriented they are.

This is an interesting POV to be sure, but it should be made more practical and testable, by writing introductory resources for the average user that are targeted to these languages. Right now, the closest comparison to your prospective design for Yatima might actually be ATS, and I have trouble seeing ATS as figuring in a "Programming 101" tutorial.

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Re:Yatima: A programming language for the decentralized web by jcburnham on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @06:09AM (#27432636)
There's definitely some similarities to ATS conceptually, but not that much in the actual implementation, and definitely not in the syntax.

That said, Hongwei Xi is a genius, and ATS is one of the most important and innovative languages of the past decade, despite the crazy syntax (seriously, t@ype for the sort of flat memory types is just bonkers). I'm really looking forward to ATS3 though https://github.com/githwxi/ATS-Xanadu, and I think there's chance it could gain serious traction.

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