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mintplant 2 hours ago

I got really excited reading this! The docs site is very polished and hypes up lots of features which click with things I've been wanting out of a language. But then I went to the repository [0] and realized that this is a week-old project, with every single commit written by Claude. I went to the playground page [1] and tried the example for effects, a headline feature and what drew me in the most, but it threw an "unbound symbol" error. I thought maybe the example could just be out-of-date, so I tried the example under the "Algebraic effects" heading on the homepage, which shows a different syntax, but that threw a parse error. The "Pattern matching" example is supposed to return 78.5, but it returns 15.700000000000001 when run in the playground. The example for "Mutation" on the ownership docs page [2] throws "unbound symbol 'set!'". The "Type Signatures" example from the types guide [3] throws another parse error. That's where I stopped.

How much of this is actually real?

[0] https://github.com/ecto/loon

[1] https://loonlang.com/play

[2] https://loonlang.com/guide/ownership

[3] https://loonlang.com/guide/types

ecto 2 hours ago | parent [-]

hey thank you, should all be fixed now!

drob518 11 minutes ago | parent [-]

Yea, kudos on the docs. It’s rare that something this new is this polished. Well done!