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mrakgr / The-Spiral-Language

Functional language with intensional polymorphism and first-class staging.
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How do I reach you? #8

Closed robertzk closed 6 years ago

robertzk commented 6 years ago

GitHub doesn't make it easy to contact the author. :) How do I reach you if I want to informally chat about this awesome project sometime? It is highly relevant (and possibly duplicative) to my interests and secret side projects!

mrakgr commented 6 years ago

My profile now has my name and email address. I am also fine with chatting in the issues page. I must admit I was surprised to find 5 notifications related to Github today when I logged in. This is the most interest Spiral had from other people ever.

@leijurv @robertzk @rockstarmode Is this recent surge of interest in the language related to me showing Spiral to Oswin Krause (from U of Copenhagen) and the recent work on the Cholesky update or did you maybe find your way here through the PL monthly thread on Reddit? You do not have to reply if you do not want to, I am just curious.

If you intend to use the language I am going to have to change my habits a little. I'll have to make sure the master is stable because active work can break either the libraries or the language from time to time so it would be good if I moved the active work to a bleeding-edge branch and merged the work periodically. It should be stable as of recent commit.

Public interest in the language is not something I can control so I do not have making the language popular as a goal. Nonetheless I am committed to making the language better and what would make the language better for other users and for me has a large amount of overlap so I will do what I can with regards to that. Fixing bugs is always a given of course, but as at this point since Spiral does not have a userbase and backward compatibility to worry about, I am open to making more fundamental changes to the library and the language.

Apart from that I am aware that documentation could be better. I spent a while writing what you can see on the main page, but I found that I was not motivated to do it beyond a certain point as I was the only user of the language at the time. If you have questions on how to use the language don't hesitate and ask - I'll use the feedback to motivate myself and to improve the documentation.

mrakgr commented 6 years ago

@koyach Sorry, nearly forgot to include you. Hopefully, Github will send a notification even though you do not show up in autocomplete.

jasondavies commented 6 years ago

It has been quite highly upvoted on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17519138. Modern-day slashdotting!

mrakgr commented 6 years ago

Ah, I should have known it would be something like this, it really distracted me. I can finally get back to programming. Thank you for telling me about it.