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2023-03-02

New Programming Language Idea: Stay

Go has become a very popular language.

There are of course many alternatives to it, but not one that's completely opposite to it in philosophy. I feel that we may need one. I mean, not really need. But want? Maybe?

Anyway, here are my suggested selling points for the fictitious language Stay:

• No imports. We stay in the same file.
• No file opens, for the same reason. Reading from stdin at startup is okay.
• No concurrency. We stay in one thread.
• No loops. We don't go round and round and round; we stay where we are.
• No changing of working directory, network calls, or execs. We stay where we are.
• No functions. We stay where we are.
• No spec changes after first release. It stays the way it is.

We do need ifs because otherwise it's not Turing complete, but that's a compromise we grudgingly make.

There. Don't you feel like this would be the best language ever for every possible important application?

-- CC0 Björn Wärmedal