• Valmond@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        The (or ‘A’) new killer language, ir so I have heard.

        It neatly brings together a lot of optimisations (like template metaprogramming in C++ which brings optimisation and compiletime checks together, but is maniacly difficult to use In C++ IMO.) and seems easy to use after a quick check.

        We’ll see, primary logic usually doesn’t prevail in those matters.

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          6 months ago

          It’s 30 years old so I’m not sure you could call it new 😆

            • Boo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              6 months ago

              Also, it’s the GNU version of the ‘S’ language (kind of like Octave vis-à-vis MATLAB). They only say they’re largely compatible, as they ofc don’t own S/MATLAB, but it’s pretty much the same AFAIK, only that R is now much more popular than S.