uiua VS cognate

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

Reminds me a bit of Cognate(https://github.com/cognate-lang/cognate/blob/master/INTRODUC...)

Think I would like Uiua more if it require a space between terms. It wouldn’t be quite as tacit but it would be easier to read and more flexible — you could multi-symbol operators.

Cognate happens to be a simple & readable polish-notation stack language that compiles to C.

This reminds me a lot of Cognate.

Since discovering and being inspired by Cognate, I've begun work on somewhat of a sister language called Adduce, with u/stavro-mueller-beta's blessing. It's honestly been kind of a whirlwind so far - over the course of about a week, I threw together a hacky Javascript interpreter to sketch out my ideas for the language, then rewrote it in Haskell for more permanent development. The language is currently in a mostly working state, though missing a lot of features; the biggest pain points so far have been mostly related to scoping and exception handling, since I'm implementing a dynamically typed, interpreted, mostly-procedural language in a language that is very much neither, and I'd give a tentative guess that just figuring out how to make the latter work at all took over half the development time of the Haskell version so far.