I just came across ** Min ** [GH], a concatenative scripting language written in Nim by Fabio.
EMPHASIS ON MAIN LINK: MIN-LANG.ORG
It was announced on Reddit but not here, whereas I would like to encourage everyone to give priority to this forum instead... So, to get the conversation here going, here's about five minutes worth of my random thoughts about Min:
- Much of this concat theory stuff is over my head right now, but right off the bat I was able to have some simple RPL fun in the Min REPL shell.
- Looking at the Min lib code shows how easy it is to wrap Nim code and export it to Min. But examples of how Min can be used (so far just within the hastysite SSG) are very simplistic.
- It would be interesting to have a discussion on what role Min can have within the Nim development ecosystem. As an imperative philistine, I currently don't understand its value beyond getting a conceptual understanding of a different seldom-used programming paradigm. I do understand the value of having scripting logic in run-time configuration files (especially for large programs like text editors and games), but in what situations is Min preferable to embedding Lua, JS, Python, etc?
- This is a second homoiconic interpreted language I've heard about written in Nim (not counting NimScript). The first was Spry [GH] (inspired by Smalltalk and Rebol, formerly known as Ni). Let me know if I missed any others. It would be interesting to discuss how they compare.