Discussion on "100 Languages Speedrun: Bonus Episode 102: Series Retrospective"

Tomasz Węgrzanowski · 2022-02-23T01:19:55.541Z

The series is over, and like any big project, it's time for a retrospective. Pre-Series Planning I did very little. After I finished 100-episode "Electron Adventures", I had a few ideas what to do next, and I went with "100 Programming Languages Spee...

Thanks for this series, I have enjoyed it. I had some questions regarding your process, but you've basically responded to all of them in this post.

I have also enjoyed the acerbic tone of some of the articles. Did it seem over-the-top at times? Who cares! As we say around here - a good hate is never bad. 😁

I wondered whether you'd get to .NET or LINQ. Well, maybe in the next one. 😁

Also, two interesting esolangs in case you or someone else reading this don't know them are Piet, which is basically a 2D language with pixels, and Rockstar, which makes programs sound like metal songs. Dylan Beattie, the author of Rockstar, has a fun talk where he talks about both here: youtube.com/watch . He also talks about other things - it's a really good talk.

Also a few unrelated, off-topic, rambling gripes.
Hashnode makes it difficult to see the list of all of the episodes (and the loader that seemed like it would let me load them in batches of 5 got stuck on the first load).
So I thought I might extract them from the RSS.
Then I thought - hey, why not try doing it in Crystal!
Then I wondered whether Crystal is compatible with existing Ruby's gems.

After googling 'crystal gem compatibility', I am now learning things like "Crystals are full of potent healing energy" and "Citrine is a wonderful crystal for manifesting and bringing forward blessings of abundance. Amethyst has an entire list of healing benefits; some of these include dispelling fear, anxiety, and rage."

It also says "Ruby is known to promote love, health, and nurturing energy. " which at least in your case definitely seems to be true.

Well, at least it can't be as bad as googling anything to do with Matrix and its client Element.

I definitely wanted .NET assembly. F# for .NET was also a maybe as that's where |> was introduced before Elixir popularized it. And there were a few .NET-based small languages. None of that happened for technical reasons.

Piet looks fun, but I don't think I could a post write about it, it would probably require a lot of images with annotations on them, much more work than a day.

Overall I was especially interested in esoteric languages with unusual computation model (AsciiDots, Whenever, Thue), not just unusual looks (Rockstar, Chef, LOLPython etc.)

If Hashnode is not serving you well, this series is double-posted to dev.to as well.

I don't think Ruby gems would just work in Crystal. It looks very similar, but everything except maybe some really trivial ones would take some adjustment.

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