Ark – A modern systems programming language

Re:Ark – A modern systems programming language by notduncansmith on Thursday June 25, 2015 @02:39PM (#9780029)

Perhaps the author was inspired by the Go language, as those are both Go-isms: Go's only loop is a for loop, and := tells the compiler to infer the variable type when initializing.

In fact, this snippet is only a few deviations away from being valid Go code.

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Re:Ark – A modern systems programming language by AYBABTME on Thursday June 25, 2015 @03:18PM (#9780289)

Their compiler is written in Go.

See https://github.com/ark-lang/ark

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Re:Ark – A modern systems programming language by warmwaffles on Thursday June 25, 2015 @05:16PM (#9780970)

You also need to remember that at one point Go's compiler was written in C, as with rust. It's all apart of the language evolution.

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Re:Ark – A modern systems programming language by AYBABTME on Thursday June 25, 2015 @07:28PM (#9781571)

I'm not blaming them, just saying there's evidence the authors are quite familiar with Go. =P

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Re:Ark – A modern systems programming language by michaelmior on Thursday June 25, 2015 @04:43PM (#9780791)

:= isn't really stating to infer the type (although this happens) but a way to differentiate variable initialization with assignment. When using := the variable is created while = is just a regular assignment. Having these as separate operators prevents errors like this:

    foo := 3
    fooo = 4

The second line is invalid because fooo does not exist.

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Re:Ark – A modern systems programming language by fapjacks on Thursday June 25, 2015 @03:32PM (#9780378)

Indeed it is written in Go, after all.

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