As a similar, yet more powerful data format I started using Nickel (https://nickel-lang.org). It has very sophisticated typing and transformation features. Highly recommended!
Readit Newsadius commented on GNU recutils: Plain text database gnu.org/software/recutils... · Posted by u/polyrand
With all the integrated standard functions Mathematica is such an incredible tool. We really need an open source version of it. Even if we implement only 10% of the features it would be already incredible useful.
I started working on an implementation in Rust called Woxi (https://github.com/ad-si/Woxi) and I hope to find some contributors, as it is such a gargantuan task!
adius commented on Show HN: Xeus-Haskell – a lightweight Haskell kernel for JupyterLite github.com/tani/xeus-hask... · Posted by u/tanimasa
This works really well, great work!
How many MB is the whole bundle?
I basically did the same thing a few weeks ago! =)
=> https://flatcv.ad-si.com
It will be interesting to see what you did differently!
adius commented on Gleam is my new obsession ericcodes.io/blog/gleam-m... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
> I'd often joke, "I love Rust, but what I really want is a simpler Haskell with a C-like syntax" or "I love Rust, but if it had a garbage collector, Rust would be my perfect language".
OCaml is a simpler Haskell, but I don't think it has a C-like syntax. However, rescript[0], the JavaScript like syntax for OCaml based Hindley Milner typed language might actually fit well for small and personal projects.
[0] https://rescript-lang.org/docs/manual/v8.0.0/introduction
Reason (https://reasonml.github.io/) is the JS like syntax for OCaml.
ReScript is a fork that explicitly removes the connection to OCaml and focuses on JavaScript output.
PHP getting a pipe operator with ways to implement a Maybe Monad was definitely not on my 2025 bingo card.
But any changes making mainstream languages more functional are highly welcome! It’s just more ergonomic than imperative code.