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Koto: a simple and expressive programming language, usable as an extension language for Rust applications, or as a standalone scripting language (koto.dev)

submitted 1 week ago by BB_C@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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I added this language to my watch list some time ago and forgot about it, until I got a notification about a new release (0.15) yesterday.

I'm someone who is familiar with system languages (C, Rust) and shell languages (Bash, Zsh, ..). But don't have much experience, at a proficient level, with any languages setting in between.

So I gave Koto's language guide a read, and found it to be very well-written, and the premise of the language in general to be interesting. I only got annoyed near the end when I got to @base, because I'm an anti-OOP diehard 😉

I hope this one well start to enjoy some adoption.

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[–] seadoo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I love this syntax! Coming from languages like R and Julia this all looks and feels super natural, and the implementation of the pipe is perfect.

The pseudo OOP stuff with self in maps is also very clever.

I’ve tried building some data structures in Lua and got hung up on meta tables and such - the use of “self” and the fact that maps here stay in order is awesome.

Makes me think of lightweight, dynamic rust.