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zig
General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
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tokio
A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...
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rescript
ReScript is a robustly typed language that compiles to efficient and human-readable JavaScript.
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why-did-you-render
why-did-you-render by Welldone Software monkey patches React to notify you about potentially avoidable re-renders. (Works with React Native as well.)
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kuroko
Discontinued Dialect of Python with explicit variable declaration and block scoping, with a lightweight and easy-to-embed bytecode compiler and interpreter.
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Zig; what I think after months of using it
See also: https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/blob/main/www/content/faq.md...
Zig is not entirely unsafe. It provides quite a few compile time checks and primitives to catch memory leaks or prevent them altogether.
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Functional programming languages should be better at mutation than they are
For those following along https://github.com/roc-lang/roc
https://github.com/multikitty/New-Programming-Languages-Show...
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Gren 0.4: New Foundations
I don't see how to make Single Page Apps, or really anything client side in Roc. I'm quite frustrated by https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/blob/main/roc-for-elm-progra... which doesn't answer this which is the first question imo.
- Roc a fast, friendly, functional language
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Roc – A fast, friendly, functional language
Their FAQ is an eminently reasonable breakdown of their choices:
https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/blob/main/FAQ.md
I don't fully agree with all of the reasoning, but it's a reasonable position to stake.
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DreamBerd is a perfect programming language
If you forget what parametrisation and functions are, then Roc's modules look like they actually do that.
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What If? Driven Development
Reminds me of: https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/blob/main/FAQ.md#why-doesnt-...
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Current Issues with the Qt Project – From the Outside Looking In
> How would a user interface written in a functional language look?
Maybe you're not aware of Elm?
https://elm-lang.org
Elm is really functional, unlike the likes of React that are just partially, kind of functional.
There's an attempt at bringing Elm to the desktop, the Roc language... here's an UI example written in Roc:
https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/blob/main/examples/gui/hello...
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Why and How We Retired Elm at Culture Amp
What are your thoughts on the direct descendant, Roc? [0] I know it's pre v0.1 so maybe you don't have any, but as a fellow Elm lover it seems pretty compelling on the surface albeit less directly frontend-dev focused.
[0] https://github.com/roc-lang/roc
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The Spinnaker Programming Language
I might be misunderstanding something, but, for example, look at this "host"/platform: https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/blob/main/examples/cli/tui-platform/host.zig
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roc-lang/roc is an open source project licensed under Universal Permissive License v1.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of roc is Rust.
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