Hi! I've created this page to showcase the features of Mint (since there are so many) and their corresponding versions in other similar languages.

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[–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Suggestion: please update the colors so colorblind people like me have an easier time reading this chart

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Question: Can you suggest resources or tips for picking colors that are friendly for color-blind people? Is it easier to differentiate based upon saturation?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    There are tools that can change the colors of your screen to simulate different kinds of color blindness, that makes it pretty easy to test for the basics. I've been using this one in the past: https://colororacle.org/

    But in general, it's also just a good guideline to never rely only on color to communicate important information, and always also have a graphical or textual cue to go with the color.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    TS as a statically typed language is not what I would call it. It's a language with enforced type annotations but can be circumvented pretty easily. For example when receiving a JSON from an http request a string field can be just whatever.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's nitpicking. It is statically typed. Is Dart not statically typed because it has dynamic.

    You could call it "gradually typed" if you want to be pedantic.

    can be circumvented pretty easily

    That means it isn't sound.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Gradually typed is a great description because it's neither fully static or dynamic. TS does allow you to circumvent the types too easily to be called statically typed.

    const strings: string[] = ([1] as any[])
    

    Is ok in TS land so the type of strings is not really static so to speak because you can assign whatever to it. Writing this in Dart would give

    error - The argument type 'List<dynamic>' can't be assigned to the parameter type 'List<string>'. - argument_type_not_assignable
    

    if I'm not mistaken.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I get your point, but that's not a great example. Kotlin is a statically typed language, and this compiles (and runs!) just fine:

    val test: List<String> = listOf(1) as List<String>
    println(test) // prints "[1]"
    

    Even val test: String = 1 as String will compile, but at least gives you an exception at runtime, which the equivalent typescript wouldn't.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's crazy, I thought that would be an invalid cast or something.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Unfortunately not. You do get a warning that it's an unchecked cast at least.

    Granted, the issue here is generic type erasure, which was a tradeoff that was decided on for backwards compatibility when generics were first introduced to Java, so it's not like an actually desirable feature of the language. But the point is that this wouldn't be reason for anyone to not call Java and Kotlin not statically typed, their type system is just a bit weaker than others in certain aspects

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Why is single line comments listed when it's green for all of them? Do they not have multi-line comments?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    This is very incomplete. Like to see it become more complete.

    Clojurescript and purescript are my favourites.

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  • That's why I do everything in PowerBI, but my data sources are entirely manually-maintained excel files

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I do my frontend in Rust thankyouverymuch.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What are "frontend language"s?

    Just wondering if this is very incomplete or due to scoping.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Languages well suited for client side web code. Most of these (maybe all?) compile to JavaScript and are designed for the web.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Web is just one kind of frontend though. And there's more ways to target web with JavaScript interfacing than transpiling to JavaScript.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Sure, but without further context, "frontend" means the web. And "frontend language" means languages that were designed for the frontend. You can write a website fromtend in Python, but you absolutely shouldn't!

    You can use languages like Java and Rust too which are more reasonable options, but they aren't "frontend languages".

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Not seeing any links to a page, what's up?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Interesting, but the colours for exceptions are inverted. One of the features that Elm touts on its front page is that it doesn't have exceptions.

    Structural equality is also debatable.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    As far as I can tell, the table is purely informational and not advocating for any features as being positive or negative.

    Otherwise, yeah the colors make no sense.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Green is good and red is bad. If that wasn't the intent they should have used different colours.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    My point is that the colors make so little sense that the only thing that makes sense is to decouple the colors from any meaning.

    This table is so lacking and flawed that I don't even know why there's so much discussion around it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is how I learned about ReScript

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    I'm pretty sure that Mint is capable of exceptions.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    just hoping crystal gets more attention from the community ^_^

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Technically, Purescript has support for exceptions since it compiles to javascript, but the more standard way to encode exception is through monadic interface

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Exceptions are not good. Alternatives are better

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