[HN Gopher] The Q Programming Language
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       The Q Programming Language
        
       Author : ygritte
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2025-08-04 11:07 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | pbohun wrote:
       | This looks very interesting. I'm hoping there will be more
       | documentation. For example, docs for the standard
       | library/packages and explanation about the design of the language
       | (does it use garbage collection? how does the type system work?
       | how does the foreign function interface work? etc.).
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       | Technically I could find all these things out by reading all the
       | source code, but that's a lot of work just to see if the language
       | meets my needs.
        
         | pbohun wrote:
         | Looking through the code a bit. This is quite impressive for
         | such a short time working on it.
        
       | tromp wrote:
       | Not to be confused with any of
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(programming_language_from_K...
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_Sharp
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       | https://q-lang.sourceforge.net/qdoc.pdf
        
       | rickcarlino wrote:
       | It really ought to have a simple example in the readme to give
       | people a feel of the syntax.
        
         | draxil wrote:
         | does quickly draw attention to it's examples directory though
        
           | rickcarlino wrote:
           | I saw the examples directory. It should still be at the top
           | of the readme.
        
       | thisislife2 wrote:
       | A quick look suggests strong typing and that's a huge plus. The
       | syntax is easy to understand and read, but I hope it will be
       | consistent - if writeInt, why not writeStr etc. too?
        
       | koehr wrote:
       | I think the syntax is really pretty!
        
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