Creating a programming language is apparently all the rage these days, and itâs got me thinking about what I would really like to see in one. Iâm starting to suspect the things I want are either impossible or mutually incompatible, so Iâd better write them down and let smarter people tell me why I canât have everything and also a pony.
Iâm strongly influenced by my love of Python, my aversion to C and C++, my fascination with Rust, and the bits of Haskell I understand. I very recently read an overview of Nim, which is part of what got my juices flowing. Also I have a lot of fond memories of what Perl 6 could have been, so, fair warning.
This is a brain dump, not a linear narrative, so some of this might be mutually referential or causally reversed or even complete nonsense. Please pardon the dust.