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staticassertion 3 hours ago

I am always kind of surprised when I go to a landing page for a language and there isn't any actual code. This is one of my biggest complaints about the rust language page, it feels crazy to me that there's no code and I think this is just a ridiculous choice (and I know this has been brought up before).

The old page had a built-in sandbox. Go used to have a more "Front and center" sandbox too but at least it's there if you scroll down https://go.dev/

chriswarbo 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I am always kind of surprised when I go to a landing page for a language and there isn't any actual code.

So, you're not surprised that this Om page has an extensive section called "Examples", right? https://www.om-language.com/#language__examples__

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Anaminus 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

One time, this annoyed me so much that I made a website.

https://anaminus.github.io/langding/

om would fall under "Yes, must scroll".

robotresearcher 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is code. Small examples start halfway down the page, and there's one 20-line example. Not much, but it's not accurate to say there's none.

It would be helpful to see any kind of motivation for the project though. Anything at all.

oblio 2 hours ago | parent [-]

On my phone that code is about 250+ lines down, probably 4-5 screens down.

It basically doesn't exist as far as marketing is concerned.

cess11 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There is code, search for 'examples'.

It concludes by implementing a fold:

   define
   {
       [Fold]<- {
           rearrange
           {
               rearrange
               {
                   dequote
                   choose
                   quote Result
                   pair pair pair {[Fold]<-} Function Result Remainder
                   Remainder
               }
               {Result Remainder}
               dequote Function Base <-[terms] Source
           }
           {Function Base Source}
        }
   }
   {
       [Fold]<- {[literal]<-} {} {1 2 3}
   }
dstanko an hour ago | parent [-]

great example! as someone who writes a Fold function every day, this explains the power of the language very well. ;)

cess11 10 minutes ago | parent [-]

As is clearly explained on the web page, this is not a programming language for everyday tasks, it's an early stage proof of concept that can be used to explore how computer science might be expressed in unusual ways.

Implementing fold would be something of a milestone in such a language.