I feel like I keep hearing on about Nushell but as scripting languages go it's right up there for me. Built with rust too and comes with a ton of stuff built in.
What's the niche this fills? I came across roc-lang recently which seemed interesting too, again built with rust, and opinionated on certain things common in older languages.
It doesn't have to, and obviously it's your project, but what is this offering over other languages. Why would I reach for it?
What would this offer me over more established scripting languages? Main thing I want to know when I see a new offering. On a quick look I find the almost but not quite C syntax more difficult to read, like the lack of parenthesis on the if statement's test and this is my biggest issue with C like languages, they change things just enough that I have to think about it and I don't see what the change offers beyond those used to C syntax having to stop and think.
Good news is I can offer you parentheses, but they are indeed optional on conditionals/loops. I am fairly sure there are other C-style syntaxes that leave those out. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2061593/why-do-c-languag... - you can't have the same ambiguity if you have mandatory braces around the body. Would there be a reason to require them?
With that said, this will work just fine and you wouldn't have to think about it too hard, if at all:
On the more general point, why this vs. anything else? That's a great question. I have tried to hit a balance that I think is pleasant to write code in (e.g. I like not having __init__.aria files around to define modules :-), and I like having proper enums, and so on...). I like to think someone would pick up Aria because it is a fun little language to try out and experiment with, not because it would change the world.
Mileage may of course vary and you may think that balance is actually nowhere to be seen. That's great, hit me with it.
I feel like I keep hearing on about Nushell but as scripting languages go it's right up there for me. Built with rust too and comes with a ton of stuff built in.
What's the niche this fills? I came across roc-lang recently which seemed interesting too, again built with rust, and opinionated on certain things common in older languages.
It doesn't have to, and obviously it's your project, but what is this offering over other languages. Why would I reach for it?
What would this offer me over more established scripting languages? Main thing I want to know when I see a new offering. On a quick look I find the almost but not quite C syntax more difficult to read, like the lack of parenthesis on the if statement's test and this is my biggest issue with C like languages, they change things just enough that I have to think about it and I don't see what the change offers beyond those used to C syntax having to stop and think.
Good news is I can offer you parentheses, but they are indeed optional on conditionals/loops. I am fairly sure there are other C-style syntaxes that leave those out. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2061593/why-do-c-languag... - you can't have the same ambiguity if you have mandatory braces around the body. Would there be a reason to require them?
With that said, this will work just fine and you wouldn't have to think about it too hard, if at all:
On the more general point, why this vs. anything else? That's a great question. I have tried to hit a balance that I think is pleasant to write code in (e.g. I like not having __init__.aria files around to define modules :-), and I like having proper enums, and so on...). I like to think someone would pick up Aria because it is a fun little language to try out and experiment with, not because it would change the world.Mileage may of course vary and you may think that balance is actually nowhere to be seen. That's great, hit me with it.