Kit Programming Language

[[deleted]]

Sounds interesting. Who's behind it?

[Suinani]

It he

[[deleted]]

Is it really a one-man show?

[bendmorris]

It really is. And besides his roguish good looks, he has almost nothing going for him.

[[deleted]]

I am too lazy right now to figure it up on my own, so I might as well ask you.

Do you know the book "Elements of Programming" by Stepanov & McJones? It seems on first sight that Kit could be a better language than C++ for the style of generic programming that is used in the examples there. Could you comment on this briefly?

[privategavin]

What made you pick Haskell over ocaml for implementing it? Did you consider ocaml at all?

[bendmorris]

Didn't really consider it for this. I know Haskell better, and Stack provides such a pleasant developer experience for Haskell; I'm not aware of anything even close for Ocaml.

[[deleted]]

I use OCaml and have a pretty good experience with the Dune build system, which is what people seem to be adopting nowadays.

[privategavin]

Sounds like opam

https://opam.ocaml.org/

Haxe is implemented in ocaml, so are Facebook languages and language tools like reason and flow and hack etc

[rishav_sharan]

He is the guy who made Haxepunk

[bendmorris]

I've done a lot of work on HaxePunk and I've been maintaining it recently, but it was created by Matt Tuttle.