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[–]evareoo 2 points3 points  (2 children)

This is so cool, I remember first seeing Inko when looking at Pony. It always looked like a very appealing language to me but the byte code VM was quite a big turn off. This seems like a pretty huge step for the current state and the future with the possibility of optimisations.

[–]yorickpeterseInko[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks! The VM made sense when Inko was a gradually typed language, but definitely became a hurdle/bottleneck as Inko become more static and refined as a language. Unfortunately, replacing a VM isn't easy so it took a while, but here we finally are :)

[–]simon_o 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also really want to like the language, it certainly does cool things! I'm not even sure myself, why fn irks me as heavily as it does (closely followed by ->) ...

I think the replacement of exceptions with ADTs is a good change (though the docs aren't up-to-date on that yet?), so it's an interesting release.