For those being negative about "yet another programming language," try creating a lang sometime...it's a fantastic exercise and, in the very least, will make you a much better programmer.
It definitely beats the standards of my (unsubmitted) hobby projects: 1) Logo 2) Getting started guide 3) Other books
On the other hand, it loses as a hobby project posting. Indeed the effort I think should go into such a posting is the reason why my hobby stuff isn't posted. Such posts are good when they document that something significant can be achieved "out of the gate" (C4 or scheme48 or something-amazing-in-500-lines) or if they document the steps to reach a more-mature-than-expected state.
There should be more hobby languages and more hobby transactional RDBMSs and more hobby ANYTHING we take for granted.
If someone writes up "docker in bash" as an example from about a year back, or something similar, whether it is a hobby thing or in "experimental production", it stands or falls not on what is achieved but what we the community get from knowing that they achieved it.
looks like gravity an mit-licensed open source offering.
The FIRST thing I do when checking out these new language announcements is search for something, anything, that shows this language is different than all the others.
My next concerns are wondering if the language will... 1) Make it to 1.0 release 2) Have thorough documentation 3) Have much of a community 4) Have tooling that makes it easy to use 5) Survive long enough to make a viable long-term investment to learn and to use.
Edit: I also am concerned if this new language makes the same mistakes as previous languages. For example, I consider allowing null as a mistake. Null is familiar, it's easy to implement, and it causes untold grief.
The language is dynamically typed. null is only questionable in statically typed languages. There's no benefit to a Maybe type in a dynamically typed language.
One good technique for spreading irrationality virally is to ask leading questions which continue the "debate" about something that really isn't that important. We have programming languages, they are often times hard to learn, and learning new ones, or making new ones, is something only a subset of the programming aggregate can and are willing to do. i.e. It's an important topic for a few, but for the rest of humanity, it really doesn't matter that much day to day. (Which is not to say a new language might eventually be useful to all, but that argument itself is irrational given it may occur in the future.)
I'm only calling out this argument here because I find this general viral behavior is occurring around other concepts in a way that is creating inefficiencies in communication channels - something we didn't really intend when building the Internet.
I agree with you. This isn't something that needs a big discussion. "Do we have too many languages? Should we cut some of them?"
But I think the common response of "oh god, here we go again" is unproductive and, frankly, stupid. It reflects something about the community. I'm not asking you to use my toy language to build the Next Greatest Enterprise Application (TM). I just made something cool, and maybe you can use it to make something cool too.