swf75 VS uiua

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

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