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5 | 2 | |
199 | 1,328 | |
3.0% | 1.4% | |
7.0 | 7.2 | |
5 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
Rust | R | |
Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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mech
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Reactive Programming Without Functions
There's also https://github.com/mech-lang/mech which is a sort of descendant of Eve https://witheve.com/ . That too seems to be getting close to hiatus. It's a bit of a shame since it seems like quite a nice paradigm for some stuff like GUIs, interactive stuff, and discrete event simulation, but I suppose the paradigm is both a bit obscure and different enough from everything else that it becomes a "boil the ocean" situation where one or a few people try and hack away but aren't really able to get much traction and eventually tired themselves out.
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What features would you want in a new programming language?
You should take a look at the language Iām developing, Mech: https://github.com/mech-lang/mech
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How do you think of concurrency and parallelism and what would your dream syntax be for it?
I'm working on a language called Mech (github.com/mech-lang/mech) that is semantically parallel and asynchronous first. You can write something like this:
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Frustration: One Year with R
> HN readers - do you have an "up and coming" language that you think has better structured the fundamentals from R, that you hope will someday have enough capabilities you can use it instead of R?
Hope is the operative word here!
I'm writing a language to compete in this area. It's called Mech and I'll be releasing the first beta in October. You can think of it like Matlab + Excel. It's very fast, has default-parallel semantics for operators and functions, and supports full interactive coding with no startup/compilation latency issues. It's meant for robots, but I've also designed it to be a better Matlab, and I think it should take on R handily. Fair warning, it's public alpha now so error messages are sparse and the happy path is narrow.
tidyr
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Frustration: One Year with R
This was fun to play around with. I made some very minor changes and posted at https://gist.github.com/hadley/d54895557fbb0fe0402d2277b9011....
It revealed to me that there's a buglet in `forcats::last()` (https://github.com/tidyverse/forcats/issues/303) and made me wonder if `pivot_longer()` should be able to rename the columns as you pivot them (https://github.com/tidyverse/tidyr/issues/1338)
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What are your thoughts on data.table vs tidyverse vs tidy syntax with data.table backends (dtplyr, tidytable) in R?
I originally wrote tidytable because dtplyr was missing a lot of functionality my coworkers and I needed, and at the time dtplyr looked like a "forgotten package" (lots of open issues/bugs, very infrequent updates). Hadley Wickham also mentioned at one point [he had no plans for adding tidyr functions)[https://github.com/tidyverse/tidyr/issues/1015#issuecomment-682977139]. He changed his mind on that one - tidyr functions are the ones that I'm in the process of contributing to dtplyr now.
What are some alternatives?
tidytable - Tidy interface to 'data.table'
cheatsheets - Posit Cheat Sheets - Can also be found at https://posit.co/resources/cheatsheets/.
COVID-19 - Plots and analysis relating to the pandemic
Frustration-One-Year-With-R - An extremely long review of R.
ggplot2-book - ggplot2: elegant graphics for data analysis
forcats - šššš: tools for working with categorical variables (factors)
ggplot2 - An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics in R
dtplyr - Data table backend for dplyr
tokay - Tokay is a programming language designed for ad-hoc parsing, inspired by awk.