Til-Lang

[Cléber Zavadniak]

On Sunday, 5 June 2022 at 03:34:21 UTC, Ali wrote:
> Found this today
> https://til-lang.github.io/til/
>
> I am a big fan, of the 2 language system

Me too.

> There two ways to look a the 2 language system
> First is from the Language perspective, one low level language 
> to create performance sensitive tools/commands/functions, and 
> another high level language that glue and pipe those parts 
> together
>
> Second is from a developer perspective, one low level language 
> used by senior developers to create high level tools and DSLs 
> to be used by less technical systems analyst

There's a third one: REPLs and dynamic environments (like 
Jupyter).

> I think if te D community, adopt Til or something like it, and 
> off-load to it some of the user libraries and tools, like web, 
> GUI and Database development, its can be interesting

I created Til primarily as a way of learning and it served this 
purpose very well.

With that said, I'll confess I don't think in terms of "adoption" 
right now. You see, **I** didn't "adopt" it, yet. :-)

I'm mostly a Python developer and I think Til could focus on 
things where Python (that is becoming a kinda "dominant" language 
in many fields) *sucks*. And this is challenging, haha!

> Anyway, Til seem interesting and active and was worth 
> mentioning and reminding the community about

Not as active as I would like, but from time to time I implement 
some new stuff.

There's a lot of things still changing, of course. I'm trying to 
keep the language simple, straightforward, fast-enough and, 
specially, I want the implementation to be easily understandable 
by just reading the source code, taking something like half an 
hour.


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I recently implemented a Tcl integration, so now it's possible to 
create some **Tk GUIs**, and even make use of some Tcl packages 
(I find the Tcl package system kinda weird, but it's old enough 
to have some interesting libraries, at least).


Thanks for taking the time to talk about Til!