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Would love to contribute as long as it's going somewhere.

You know it is coded in Hare, right?

So, not. Amusement value only. (Amusement suffices, sometimes.)

Explaining my downvote: even if that's true it's considered mean-spirited and naive to say so because you really can't know the future. I don't need to remind you, as an example, Linux was a student project no one would have thought to succeed as it has.

My assessment is based on the very scattered attention in evidence.

A new language is a full-time project, if you are at all serious. A new kernel is another full-time project, if you are at all serious. A new kernel coded in an absolutely immature language starts it out at a major handicap, even if you were serious.

Nobody is obliged to be serious, of course, on a hobby project, but there is no hiding the fact. Wishing doesn't make up the difference. Taking the question at face value, it deserved an honest answer, even at risk of resentment in, well, the peanut gallery -- which delivered.

I have already spent over 3 years on Hare and it has nearly 50 people working on it. It is also much simpler in design and smaller in scope than other new languages. Furthermore, building a kernel with it helps to validate the language design, so working on one improves the other.

You are the peanut gallery, by the way.

You reveal more than you probably intend.

The symbiosis of C and Unix is likely why we're not using Multics, VMS, TOPS, or something to this day.

All I know about you is from your comments here on HN, and based on that I respect you, and that's where I'm coming from when I say this: whatever your beef with Drew DeVault, you're embarrassing yourself in this thread. C'mon, you're better than this.

Thank you, I will stay out.

Then Jonathan Blow must be especially screwed, considering he’s been developing his Sokoban game in tandem with his Jai language. Those projects are far more more complex than Helios and Hare respectively and are being worked on by a much smaller team.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

Would you mind just downvoting them, and not keep spamming the list with this repetitive stuff? Once is enough.

You're correct of course. I apologize, I got https://xkcd.com/386/'d like an idiot.

Waited until this thread is hopefully quieter to post this.

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