I'm the opposite: when landing in a programming language site I want to know the user case the authors had in mind, the memory model, the type system, the compilation targets, the data layout, the control structures, and only at the end just check that the syntax is not indentation based.
To borrow your video game analogy. F* is the dwarf fortress of programming languages. Screenshots are only going to confuse anyone who isn't ready to take a significant mental journey.
and click on the image below the text "You probably want to read it while trying out examples and exercises in your browser by clicking the image below.".
In the section of (1) also the PDF version is linked:
I wonder why more languages don't have a few simple examples of: "HTTP server", "hello world", "todo list app" that you can just click and it shows the code for how you'd make it in that language.
It matters a lot how the syntax looks IMO and seeing how, say, an API is scaffolded, helps understand a lot about the language in one glance
Edit: Page 18 of the PDF. That's the first time I found what the code looks like, thanks for sharing!
Clicked like 5 pages and never found 1 code example.
Idk why languages don't have their syntax in a sandbox front-and-center on the home page.
It's like a video game site with zero screenshots or videos (also rampant).
New programming languages I want 2 things:
1. What does the syntax look like
2. Why would I use this language
Talk about the proof logic, show the syntax, thank you
> Clicked like 5 pages and never found 1 code example.
But I clicked one (1) link to the online book and found a thousand?
I'm the opposite: when landing in a programming language site I want to know the user case the authors had in mind, the memory model, the type system, the compilation targets, the data layout, the control structures, and only at the end just check that the syntax is not indentation based.
So I'm very seriously considering making my language indentation based. You're saying you wouldn't like that?
I think this falls under "[wanting] to know the user case the authors had in mind"
There is no "user case", it's called use case.
That seems to be what he just said.
That’s because syntax is the least interesting part of F*.
Then why are we all so interested?
Examples provide more than syntax. It's the semantics that we care about most.
To borrow your video game analogy. F* is the dwarf fortress of programming languages. Screenshots are only going to confuse anyone who isn't ready to take a significant mental journey.
https://fstar-lang.org/tutorial/
> https://fstar-lang.org/tutorial/
FYI: The link to this tutorial is unluckily a little bit obscured on the F* website: Go to
> https://fstar-lang.org/index.html#learn (1)
and click on the image below the text "You probably want to read it while trying out examples and exercises in your browser by clicking the image below.".
In the section of (1) also the PDF version is linked:
> https://fstar-lang.org/tutorial/proof-oriented-programming-i...
I still don't see any code examples!
But I do see the editor to try it.
I wonder why more languages don't have a few simple examples of: "HTTP server", "hello world", "todo list app" that you can just click and it shows the code for how you'd make it in that language.
It matters a lot how the syntax looks IMO and seeing how, say, an API is scaffolded, helps understand a lot about the language in one glance
Edit: Page 18 of the PDF. That's the first time I found what the code looks like, thanks for sharing!
I guess it's a bit popular right now
just click the screenshot
Takes you to an empty editor with still no code examples
I clicked on 2 links on the main page in the Learn F* section...
I liked being able to express calling external libraries while incrementally migrating existing C codebases to F*. Very solid language.
F* seems to be a collection of like five different languages and proof systems. Honestly I never figured it out.
Does it get basic stuff like subtraction and u8 right, unlike Lean?
> F* (pronounced F star)
No, it isn't.
"Now introducing my new language, FFUUUUU--. It's a fork of Rust."