Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics

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• skybrian8 minutes ago
  It seems pretty tasteful, but I don&#x27;t see anything about character sets. How does it support Unicode? What does a string of 16-bit characters represent?<p>There do seem to be some Unicode constants in the standard library:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tibleiz.net&#x2F;browser.html?path=std&amp;title=Standard%20Library%20Source%20Code" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tibleiz.net&#x2F;browser.html?path=std&amp;title=Standard%20L...</a>
• DenisM16 minutes ago
  Garbage collected? Couldn’t tell from the docs.
• bogdanoff_21 day ago
  Not mine, but I found this to be really interesting as a language created by one person for their own use.<p>Also really interesting are the author&#x27;s blog with articles on language design (for example his thoughts on exceptions, and how he added them to his language, then decided against them), and the change log for the language, showing its evolution.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tibleiz.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tibleiz.net&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tibleiz.net&#x2F;copper&#x2F;changes.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tibleiz.net&#x2F;copper&#x2F;changes.html</a>
• jdw6452 minutes ago
  It’s similar to Python syntax.
  • abound42 minutes ago
    From the website itself:<p>&gt; Ruby-style syntax<p>Also, Python has significant whitespace, which this language does not appear to have.
    • jdw649 minutes ago
      The end syntax is definitely Ruby-style, but I guess I felt that way just from looking at syntax like var, func, and for x in. It does seem like a mix of the two, but maybe it’s because I’m so used to Python that I noticed the Python-like syntax first. Thanks for pointing that out.