The Ela Programming Language

elalang.net

14 pointsImmortalin7 comments

Interesting -- a .NET dynamic functional language with lots of inspiration from Haskell, but strict-by-default with explicit (but succinct) laziness, like Alice ML.

Too bad it is Windows-only.

"Ela runs on .NET and Mono and supports Windows, Linux, Mac OS and many other environments"

http://elalang.net/about.aspx

The language, etc., is .NET 2.0+/Mono 2.6+ and doesn't require Windows, but the IDE is .NET 4.0+, Windows-only (per the readme on the Ela Platform 2014.1 download).

> .NET 2.0+/Mono 2.6+ ... but the IDE is .NET 4.0+

This is a perfect example why the naysayers were right when the Linux community talked about accepting Mono as default into the Linux mainstream. Fortunately Mono was rejected and remained as an option.

Then again, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8595905

Let's talk about that in 2016.

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