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Re:The Onyx Programming Language by cogman10 on Friday December 08, 2023 @11:34AM (#38570894)
It looks to be a nicer C ultimately.

It looks like it fits pretty squarely in the "if you want to do C level programming but you'd also like nice lambdas, sum types, and type inference"

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Re:The Onyx Programming Language by CollinEMac on Friday December 08, 2023 @11:50AM (#38571096)
Yeah but we have a lot of languages that do that now. Some of them are even mentioned on Onyx's homepage.
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Re:The Onyx Programming Language by celrod on Friday December 08, 2023 @11:48AM (#38571069)
And only need it to compile to webassembly.
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Re:The Onyx Programming Language by cogman10 on Friday December 08, 2023 @12:39PM (#38571731)
Oh, I missed that part. That's quiet the design choice.
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