Tacit Talk Episode 1: Uiua with Kai Schmidt

[@kaikalii]

Thanks so much for having me, Conor! Looking forward to your future episodes.

[@TankorSmash]

I was looking for this upload, but I had to swap to the Live tab in your channel, rather than my subscription feed. Thanks to Kaikalii for making Uiua, and Code Report for putting this podcast together!

[@c4tubo]

Great show and kickoff, with some of my favorite programming language topics and bird-brains (combinators joke ;-)).

[@landin1181]

I watch and am interested. But I also wonder what the benefit of a language like this is? I just have 0 idea. 😅

[@rujon288]

for tacit lovers

[@elnico5623]

You seem kinda lost my friend :p this channel is more or less all about these languages, Uiua is not the first nor will it be the last APL descendant, the APLs are actually amongst the oldest language families ever!

[@amadocabrera5007]

Loving your podcasts. Btw, I think that the audio was unbalanced and a little low.

[@code_report]

Yea, I will fix it for next time. And I normalized the audio for the audio only podcast 👍🏻

[@amadocabrera5007]

@@code_report thanks, looking forward to the next episodes.

[@addcoding8150]

nice. second monitor food :)

[@marcthatcher]

This is all good stuff but the fact that you need to spend so long justifying using glyphs tells you why they are the wrong choice. And typing words which turn into glyphs is very clever but just makes it worse! Just stick to the words!!

[@JohnathonSmith03]

Coming from a more “math” perspective, converting words to symbols doesn’t bother me nearly as much. To me it’s identical to the various style arguments over general verboseness with variables. Should I use i, idx, index, indexOfArrayOfObjects, etc. Singular symbols helps you parse symmetries in an expression with the obvious overhead of symbol transformation in your head.. In the end it’s no different from arguments around nesting depth or how many lines of code before you refactor into functions or files.