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Comment by ahmedfromtunis | Hacker News Reader

I was preparing myself to be surprised to discover this was a programming language using Akkadian, complete with cuneiform script.

This, however, was not it!

That said, people are already using this language for their projects -- even commercial ones: http://impredicative.com/ur/users.html

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I stumbled across it, because bazqux.com (which I‘m trialling now) uses it:

    Is BazQux Reader really written in Haskell and Ur/Web?
    Yes. I love to use the best tools available.

I am now also trialing bazqux. It is not bad. Is this the power of the best tools available?

In all seriousness, this is probably the best RSS reader I have used recently. It's, so much faster than what I was using that I had to redo all my estimates for how long it should take to do stuff with an RSS reader.

I had to get a stopwatch and start clocking how long it takes me to do things using a computer recently, because I swear like half the software I was using was slow for no reason despite buying super fast ssd/ddr18 ram/cpu etc. I got rid of all my games I could not launch from the desktop and be playing the game within 30 seconds, and my entire outlook on gaming felt better. I really hate when software wastes your time.

I've learned that if there's a language, there's someone using it commercially :)

I thought this would be about the First Programming Language that nobody remembered, the ur-heimat incubator of some obscure syntax that became everything from FORTRAN to Ruby

Yes, I was definitely expecting cuneiform and base 60 literals.

I want this now. Bonus points if it's a vector language and is as terse as K.

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