dayaml VS uiua

I've been knee deep in APL for the past year, working on a YAML parser: https://github.com/xelxebar/dayaml. It's still very prototypy, but for ~30 lines of code it's surprisingly complete.

The process of getting that project to where it is now really revolutionized how I think of software development in general and how I manage my dev teams at work. Our best practices and wisdom around software dev really are much more strongly tied to historical habits and tooling whims than we'd like to believe. I believe we as a community have a lot of unpicked fruits laying around if we shift focus onto the human side of Human-Computer Interfacing for a while.

About K, though, Arthur Whitney sounds like such a beast, and I would love to mingle with the K community. Within the array programming circles, APL/J/BQN form one cluster and K looks like it's off on its own a bit with different ideas and a laser focus on high performance. Extremely enticing.

This is what I love in Uiua[1]. That operators can be written as english words instead of unicode symbols. Makes it quite similar looking to functuinal point free code.

[1]: https://www.uiua.org/

you may also enjoy uiua (https://www.uiua.org/) which uses these alien glyphs but is even more alien because it's a concatenative language (stack oriented), like forth or postscript, but to make it even more alien it's written right to left. For example 1+2 is written "+ 1 2" (in forth it would be "1 2 +")

The language and the site are brilliant and I think worth 30m of your time skimming through and trying out the examples in the online editor / tutorial.

From https://www.uiua.org/

If you're fine with tacit array-oriented (ie APL-like): Uiua.

As a lover of array languages, I remember being excited to read a futurist article on vector processors and programming languages. It was written right before Wes McKinney worked on Pandas (the J programming language influenced him), and I thought J/APL or another array language was going to explode. J has Jd, in which J is fully integrated. This did not come to pass (yet). No matter, I still enjoy array languages anyway. There's a new array language, uiua[1], that is a mix of array and stack concepts with a good standard library including audio and graphics.

[1] https://www.uiua.org/

Yeah

> The main language that inspired Uiua is BQN. While I had heard about APL before, BQN was my first real exposure to the power of the array paradigm. I think the language is an astounding feat of engineering. Marshall is both a genius and a great communicator.

https://www.uiua.org/docs/design

Also, a week ago there were only two contributors to the project: 1000+ by kaikalii, and this single commit by Marshall:

https://github.com/uiua-lang/uiua/pull/1/files