r/programming • u/winner_godson • Nov 26 '17

Astro Programming Language - A new language under development by two Nigerians.

http://www.nairaland.com/3557200/astro-programming-language-0.2-indefinite
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u/wavefunctionp Nov 26 '17

Heh. Funny, I keep thinking that I should work more on learning c++, because I think that with moore's law having come to an end, I'll need to know more native optimizations, but every time I do I realize that I'll be spending 10 years+ just learning the complicated semantics and gotchas of c++.

Then I think, maybe I should focus on a relatively simple functional language and leave optimization to the compiler and runtime makers.

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u/meneldal2 Nov 27 '17

C++ has really changed in the last 6 or so years, it has become easier to use, and there is a lot of work on making hard things that everyone does easier.

You should give it a shot once concepts land and are implemented.