[HN Gopher] Programming language Dino and its implementation
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       Programming language Dino and its implementation
        
       Author : 90s_dev
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2025-06-05 17:47 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | johnisgood wrote:
       | I do not know how to interpret the benchmarks. OCaml is really
       | fast, so the numbers do not make sense to me, at a quick glance.
       | Is it worse or better to Python or Ruby according to the
       | benchmark? I would like to see the code, too, because if it is
       | that much slower than Python or Ruby, then there is a serious
       | problem with the implementation.
        
         | extrabajs wrote:
         | Guessing from the text that they're running the (interactive)
         | bytecode compiler + interpreter version of OCaml, which is much
         | slower.
        
       | ghurtado wrote:
       | Feature-wise it looks very complete / modern.
       | 
       | It seems to have a pretty high ratio of "I use X because it's the
       | only one that has Y" type features, all in one place. Very
       | appealing to Python users, since it fills a few well known
       | language gaps.
        
         | 90s_dev wrote:
         | What do you mean, George?
         | 
         | > It seems to have a pretty high ratio of "I use X because it's
         | the only one that has Y" type features, all in one place.
        
           | ghurtado wrote:
           | My name is certainly not George :D but I'll pick two
           | features:
           | 
           | - fibers
           | 
           | - advanced pattern matching
           | 
           | These are two not so common language features that are often
           | the differentiator in a class of languages: "I like Python -
           | but Ruby has fibers" or "I like Ruby - but Python has pattern
           | matching"
           | 
           | To see such features all in one language has a lot of appeal
           | (to me, anyway)
        
       | bravesoul2 wrote:
       | Cool. A golike from 1993 with a similar name to a certain modern
       | JS runner.
        
         | 90s_dev wrote:
         | How is it like Go? It seems differenter.
        
       | Lerc wrote:
       | I was not expecting to feel as sad as I did after seeing the name
       | Animatek after all these years.
       | 
       | If things are hard, seek help, please.
        
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