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1. WimⓂ️ (wim_v12e@merveilles.town)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 02:33:07 JST WimⓂ️

   The problem with #Funktal, my functional language for #Uxn, is that very likely, nobody will want to use it because it lacks features. You know how this goes: if I release it bare-bones, a few people try it, they will be put off because of the lack of what they consider essential features, and that's it, as you have only ever one chance.

   • Devine Lu Ator (neauoire@merveilles.town)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 02:33:04 JST Devine Lu Ator

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     @wim_v12e I think that the moment you start making programs with it, especially things that are a pain to do in uxntal plain, people will be interested to try it out! I think that will influence the adoption more than a good/bad specs, if you're excited about writing programs with Funktal, others will be too :)

   • WimⓂ️ (wim_v12e@merveilles.town)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 02:33:05 JST WimⓂ️

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     So I guess I will focus on the bare bones, and the value in it will be that I will be able to explain how to create something like this.

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • WimⓂ️ (wim_v12e@merveilles.town)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 02:33:06 JST WimⓂ️

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     Also, implementing syntactic sugar is a lot of work, and from my perspective, not a lot of fun. The fun bit is cracking the problem of creating a proper statically typed language in an ultra-low-resource environment like Uxn. I don't think I will be able to motivate myself to implement all these additional features.