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Re:Anic - Faster than C, Safer than Java, Simpler than *sh by spartango on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @05:08PM (#4383076)
The syntax put me off at first, and still bothers me a bit (something to do with too much symbolic sugar and existing familiarity with escape chars)

That said...

I feel like this streaming syntax might be better suited as a meta-programming framework of sorts...build the more intricate objects/modules in a language such as C/C++ or java, and use these stream/latch metaphors to orchestrate those modules.

Yes, you can already do this with *sh (largely the point of Unix pipes), or directly in C/C++/Java (e.g. Storm), but ANI seems to provide a really rich interface for this kind of orchestration. It has many of the right primitives.

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Re:Anic - Faster than C, Safer than Java, Simpler than *sh by rdtsc on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @07:39PM (#4383640)
> feel like this streaming syntax might be better suited as a meta-programming framework of sorts

I think that is why the criticism is more apparent. It is exciting to have those features, but then the syntax just pushed you away.

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