EXexikyut·Jun 13, 2018
Hmm, interesting.
I just had a slow look through http://kittenlang.org/intro/. In all honesty my stupid ADHD decided to conk out precisely at the Lambdas section, I'm not sure why. Up to that point, the only thing that I'd note is that "match (xs head)" is not described anywhere (on the page at all).
But I think it's interesting you posit Kitten as a systems language. Huh. (What's a "traditional" tokenizer?! Ah; I assume you mean "not pure Forth" as opposed to "buy APL keycaps here" (heh).)
I guess the only advice I can think of right now is, offer batteries included, and include the batteries you're most passionate about, because it'll mean the implementations are complete and well-tested. If that's web templating (random top-of-my-head thought), do that; if it's image processing, do that. It'll raise the chances the language becomes $th
Read the rest
ing-heavy because nobody contributes other code, but you can always stop advertising and spend time rounding things out if that happens.
I meant to install Kitten, but that didn't quite work this time around due to problems on my end. (First git was silently segfaulting due to inconsistently-upgraded shared libraries on my Slackware box, then I realized I needed Haskell and switched to Arch, then I was reminded that pacman doesn't really know how to resolve dependencies properly ("if you install something that needs the newest version of glibc, maybe I shouldn't need to have to upgrade glibc (and reverse-resolve its dependencies) myself?!"), then after half-installing Haskell I discovered (/) only had 19MB free, so now I have to go figure out what caused that... (I argue it's my 80KB/s ADSL2+ upload speed :P))
I'll definitely be looking at Kitten at some point though. Thanks for the reply!
EDIT: Got past the previous issues, now Haskell is sad. https://github.com/evincarofautumn/kitten/issues/206