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Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Is there a language that is simple and empowers developer productivity?

3•akkad33•19h ago
I think many languages tried to be "simple", but in the process they also handicapped developers by removing useful features like generics and operator overloading. I'm thinking Java, Go, etc. Is there a language that actually is simple, but also is expressive while also remaining correct, with a reliable type system with no holes? I would not say Rust, D etc are simple, even though they allow enormous flexibility

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PaulHoule•19h ago
Kotlin?
exasperaited•18h ago
There’s no simple language that has generics, operator overloading and a type system because these are not simple concepts.

That’s OK, surely?

There are older languages that are simple, typed and powerful like Ada and Modula-2, but these have fallen out of favour because the world wants operator overloading and complex type definition languages and generics.

(The lack of a Modula-2 sort of language is IMO ably addressed by Go)

akkad33•18h ago
I think Julia is kind of simple in the sense that it has this idea that every function you write is automatically generic and the compiler infers the generic bounds by looking at the function implementation. A typed language that does something similar imperfectly is fsharps, but it does not work too well in practice
exasperaited•12h ago
I must say I don't really know enough about Julia to know whether it is simple, but that's some reading for a long train journey bookmarked at least :-)
linguae•18h ago
I’m reminded of Standard ML (note that this has nothing to do with machine learning). It is a simple language with a powerful static type system, and while it is a functional programming language, it permits impure operations such as mutability. Standard ML is more complex than Scheme (which is dynamically typed), but is simpler than its cousin OCaml (which is more feature-rich), Common Lisp, or Haskell. I think Standard ML is a nice combination of power, simplicity, and static typing.

https://www.smlnj.org/index.html

jonahbenton•17h ago
There is no reliable type system with no holes, because there are no humans who can generate a hole free collection of orthogonal types.

For simple, there is always Clojure. Uses predicates rather than declarative types.

thesuperbigfrog•17h ago
>> For simple, there is always Clojure

"Simple Made Easy": https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/

Agreed, Clojure is concise, expressive, and relatively simple.

akkad33•16h ago
> Uses predicates rather than declarative types.

Could you explain what predicates are? I've never seen the concept of predicates put forth as an alternative to types

xgdgsc•6h ago
Julia is really simple if you do math related stuff (sounds like from mention of operator overloading ): https://github.com/mossr/BeautifulAlgorithms.jl .