kona VS swf75

At first, I thought you were going to be talking about Kona which is another language. You may wish to consider a more unique name, though Kona isn't super well known.

For anyone interested in using a language like APL that doesn't require special symbols, I'd recommend K. You can try it out using Kona.

There are some open source implementations of J and K that you might enjoy.

I'll third the ArrayCast, the host is Conor Hoekstra, a C++ programmer at NVidia Research. Regular panelists are Adám Brudzewsky[1] who works at Dyalog APL, Bob Therriault[2] who runs the J Wiki[3], Stephen Taylor who works with K and Q and cut his teeth on APL planning one of Chris Bonnington's Mt. Everest[4], Marshall Lochbaum who worked on J and APL and developed the BQN[5] language.

And their guests include Jeremy Howard, founder of fast.ai and Kaggle, Henry Rich implementer of the J language, Stevan Apter a K programmer and creator of No Stinking Loops site ( nsl.com ), Andrew Sengul who created April a blend of APL and Lisp, Morten Kromberg the CTO of Dyalog APL, Aaron Hsu creator of the co-dfns GPU compiler for APL, Brooke Allen a Wall Street entrepreneur and APL programmer, Eric Iverson son of Ken Iverson the APL creator and J designer/developer, Ashok Reddy former chemical engineer and employee at Rational (the UML people) now CEO of the KX company, Atilla Vrabecz a PhD Chemist turned K language entrepreneur, Leslie Goldsmith former APL developer at I.P. Sharp, John Earnest creator of the Ok language, Troels Henriksen creator of the GPU accelerated language Futhark, Lib Gibson former APL developer and consultant and project/developer manager at I.P. Sharp, programming polyglot Romilly Cocking, programming polyglot Vanessa McHale, and others.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=abrudz

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bobterryo

[3] https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Main_Page

[4] https://github.com/5jt/swf75

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24167804