2 comments

  • JohnFen a day ago ago

    > When you see these "cool" languages do you try them out?

    Sometimes, but not usually. I'll try out a new language if there's something about the language that I find compelling (it can be technical, syntactic, or even just that the language amuses me) or if it looks like it will ease some actual problem I'm having. Otherwise, I wont.

  • sargstuff a day ago ago

    > Ask HN: Do you do anything with the "cool" langauges that get posted here?

    Categorize & move them to [0].

    > When you see these "cool" languages do you try them out?

    Check out ways to combine with various other miscellaneous domain specific languages[3]

    "doom"d programming can make trying out the "cool" language/domain specific langauge a bit easier. aka 'doom' pdf & javascript port[1]; psdoom [2]

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    [0] : https://esolangs.org/wiki/Esolang:Categorization

    [1] : pdfdoom : http://hackaday.com/2025/01/15/nice-pdf-but-can-it-run-doom-...

    [2] : psdoom : http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/

    [3] : domain specific languages : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language