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Aria is a modern, dynamic scripting language. It is meant to be a "sweet spot" language, easy to pick-up and enjoyable to use.

It comes with a familiar C-style syntax, and draws inspiration from a variety of languages. It has a small but usable standard library and strives to be a low-ceremony-get-stuff-done kind of language.

It is currently at version 0.9 and I would love feedback as I work towards getting it to 1.0.

You do a good job on explaining the what of the language, but I cannot quickly find the why of the language. What is the language's purpose? Why should or could I use it?

4 days agoby thenulldevice

I feel like I keep harping on about Nushell but as scripting languages go it's right up there for me. Built with rust too and comes with a ton of stuff built in.

What's the niche this fills? I came across roc-lang recently which seemed interesting too, again built with rust, and opinionated on certain things common in older languages.

It doesn't have to, and obviously it's your project, but what is this offering over other languages. Why would I reach for it?

7 days agoby account-5

What would this offer me over more established scripting languages? Main thing I want to know when I see a new offering. On a quick look I find the almost but not quite C syntax more difficult to read, like the lack of parenthesis on the if statement's test and this is my biggest issue with C like languages, they change things just enough that I have to think about it and I don't see what the change offers beyond those used to C syntax having to stop and think.

7 days agoby ofalkaed

Judging from the small example in the readme, the language looks pleasing to the eye.

What’s under the hood though? What are some of the technical choices, performance characteristics and longer term goals?

4 days agoby plainOldText

Does it support higher-kinded types and typeclasses? Does it support call-site expansion?

4 days agoby pshirshov

Why the name conflict with aria the technology?

3 days agoby drumnerd