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lyxal

1:27 AM

!!/status

Vyxal Bot

@lyxal I am doing spectacularly.

lyxal

Guess you don't report review dismissals

That's fine, just good to know

lyxal

1:51 AM

Gamers, it's with a little sadness that I have to announce that apl won the recent week golf language vote

It was a good run of trolling while it lasted lads

Any gamers stationed to troll apl on WeekGolf will now be re-deployed on other copious trolling efforts

emanresu A

2:49 AM

Get hyper to swap the vyxal bot with the APL bot

lyxal

Savage

1 hour later…

PyGamer0

4:00 AM

@lyxal what are we going to use for v3

lyxal

either Scala or Go

PyGamer0

why not rust

lyxal

4:41 AM

too strict

I like a little flexibility with types

3 hours later…

lyxal

7:52 AM

Alright, important announcement: version 3 will not be written in go. It will still be written in scala

I did some initial experimenting with lazylists and go just makes me want to commit frick

Therefore, scala will be used

But we'll have to find a way to do it without needing an overload of directories

For a golfing language that aims for simplicity, the file structure should also be simple

There's no more uncertainty about the language that will be used. I'm firm on Scala because of its functional programming support

That is all

I'll be looking into how to make a scala project with minimal nested directories

lyxal

8:14 AM

It looks like the minimum needed is

.
└── src/
    ├── main/
    │   └── scala/
    └── test/
        └── scala/

I wonder if src can be renamed to vyxal and if you can just have scala in main without going deeper into a scala directory

lyxal

8:44 AM

While I still remember - I also have an action plan

An action plan on how to kick-start v3 development for good

1) create a simple txt file of what each element is

Like the first ever style of txt file

2) just get started on the tokeniser

Don't worry about finer details or the yaml until needed

3) less reviews required for v3 PRs

We're in a quiet period, so less will be needed

1 approval should be fine

4) no timelines for completion

We're already "5 months behind schedule" according to the timeline I made in November last year

Which goes to show just how useful it was

(it wasn't useful at all)

That should be enough to get things going

After that, more detailed planning can happen when it needs to happen

We'll also need a way to create actually helpful documentation

More on this later

2 hours later…

lyxal

10:24 AM

Alright about the helpful documentation

If you've ever tried to figure out how the lexer and parser and transpiler work, you'll know that it isn't exactly easy

You have to read through a whole lot of text and then go through the source code to piece together what's happening

I'm thinking for version 3 (before things get too complex) a sort of diagrammatic and simple English guide to the different components of the interpreter could help

Something updated gradually as things are added

That way, it'd be written while the person doing the implementation still knows what's happening

Plus it'd help future contributors know how to approach any code

At this stage it's just an idea I'm thinking of

Maybe I'll work on something for the current interpreter as a proof of concept

lyxal

10:45 AM

Actually,

CMQ: what would best help you understand how the lexer/parser works?

E.g diagrams/written explanation/comments in the source code

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Seggan

6:05 PM

@lyxal those are minimum. you can have no package to not go deeper into directories

@lyxal write it out in antlr or smth

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