Koto Programming Language
koto.dev

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/23822190

I added this language to my watch list some time ago and forgot about it, until I got a notification about a new release (0.15) yesterday.

I’m someone who is familiar with system languages (C, Rust) and shell languages (Bash, Zsh, …). But don’t have much experience, at a proficient level, with any languages setting in between.

So I gave Koto’s language guide a read, and found it to be very well-written, and the premise of the language in general to be interesting. I only got annoyed near the end when I got to @base, because I’m an anti-OOP diehard 😉

I hope this one well start to enjoy some adoption.

  • beleza pura@lemmy.eco.br
    1·
    4 hours ago

    maybe it has to do with the lack of parens in the method calls and the chaining of method calls. this would be the ruby equivalent of the script:

    puts 'Hello, World!'
# -> Hello, World!

def square(n) n*n end

[2, 4, 6, 8].map(&:square)
# -> [4, 16, 36, 64]

# another option
[2, 4, 6, 8].map{|n| n*n}