Red Hat Releases Ceylon Language 1.0.0

First time accepted submitter Gavin King writes with news that the Ceylon language hit 1.0 "Ceylon 1.0 is a modern, modular, statically typed programming language for the Java and JavaScript virtual machines. The language features, an emphasis upon readability and a strong bias toward omission or elimination of potentially-harmful constructs; an extremely powerful type system combining subtype and parametric polymorphism with declaration-site variance, including first-class union and intersection types, and using principal types for local type inference and flow-dependent typing; a unique treatment of function and tuple types, enabling powerful abstractions; first-class constructs for defining modules and dependencies between modules; a very flexible syntax including comprehensions and support for expressing tree-like structures; and fully-reified generic types, on both the JVM and JavaScript virtual machines, and a unique typesafe metamodel. More information may be found in the feature list and quick introduction." If you think Ceylon is cool, you might find Ur/Web interesting too.

Comments

Shite

[Hognoxious]

The language features, an emphasis upon readability and a strong bias toward omission or elimination of potentially-harmful constructs

Like that comma?

Re:Enough already.

[Mitchell314]

Honestly, I'd be happy with just a C variant with built-in string support.

Concurrency

[emorning9707]

I have no interest in a new language that has concurrency story at all.
Any new language needs to address the biggest development challenge of this time - coding for multiple cores.

Re:Cool!

[MouseTheLuckyDog]

Been there done that in C++. Check Barton and Nackman.

harmful constructs

[Alomex]

Any language that states as a goal: omission or elimination of potentially-harmful constructs, but keeps the awful C construct:

if (x = 3)
{ ...
}

is not really serious about elimination of harmful constructs.

Re:Brain Dead

[Kongming]

People do not think in types.

Piaget would disagree with you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_(psychology)

Re:Enough already.

[ebno-10db]

There are too many programming languages.

Some people describe the recent increase in the number of languages as the Cambrian explosion, but what we need now is a mass extinction.

Re:Thank goodness

[RightSaidFred99]

No, he probably means writing gobs and gobs and gobs of difficult to support and debug software. But yours is right too,

Fuck using a scripting language for anything beyond a "script".

Re:Fits partially with tradition

[narcc]

Pure practicality?

PHP didn't even start out as a programming language. Even now, you can happily look at it as a bunch of stuff that makes it easy for people make dynamic websites. It is clearly quite successful. It's successful because it was really good at doing the job it was, er, "designed" to do.

PHP, then, would fall neatly under the "successful languages" category.

Hate it all you want. Bitch and moan on Slashdot 'till your fingers bleed. It's not going away any time soon. There is no alternative that is even half as easy to set up and use. There is no suitable replacement. That "unusable" language just happens to be the best thing around.

I point out this obvious fact because it drives morons incapable of forming their own opinions crazy. With any luck, they'll stop polluting every programming related thread with their miserable whining.