Well done. +1 for posting on Gemini
More so, their mirroring from Gemini, not the other way around
Nice find. I would have assumed that Drew kept the development quiet to not raise expectations that could not be met.
They’re going to be selling it on 3.5" floppies… sign me up
It is refreshing that Drew knows the correct way to indent code.
Also, it’s extremely likely he is aware people know about this language already. He would not have put up this website on a public facing domain name if he hadn’t considered the possibility.
Drew: I don’t want anyone to see my new programming language.
Also Drew: Makes a complete page with docs, tutorials, resources, and public repos. And he asks you to please keep it as a secret ㊙ .
He has a good sense of humor 🤣
Drew is going to be very mad…
I share your frustration however, and am happy you did this. Maybe he will eventually come around and laugh
looks promising. hopefully it’ll mature over the next few years to be something cool
There are many languages that try to be a better C. For example Zig, D, C#, Swift, rust, Odin, etc. Has Hare some unique goals, or what sets it apart?
If you want a TLDR of how it compares to other languages, I think this: https://drewdevault.com/2021/03/19/A-new-systems-language.html
First I’ve heard of Odin, I think most of the languages you list can’t be considered true altneratives to C. A key aspect of C is manual memory management; probably any language with garbage collection cannot replace C in its appropriate use cases (kernels, interpreters, device drivers, etc).
My impression is that Hare aims to be drastically simpler than Rust, but borrows at least one major idea from it: pattern matching. I suspect a big reason Drew didn’t consider Zig satisfactory is because of its lack of unicode string support. See this fascinating thread where he argues with the Zig developers about their decision to leave it out: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/234
That is interesting. Thanks.
