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• atVelocet
  How did you came up with this strange syntax? Why not use a Python like one which is already known?How about performance compared to compiled MicroPython (viper)?
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  draven
  The wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toit is short but still gives a lot of context.
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  maxloh
  Here's a beginner tutorial for the language: https://docs.toit.io/language/toitversusNice syntax. It looks like how we'd design programming if C had never existed. add a/int b/int -> int: return a + b main: print (add 2 3) // Prints 5.
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  thomascountz
  Toit is a language for writing scripts on your computer and applications on your ESP32. A readable syntax, an efficient runtime, and tools that work together. Free and open source. Maintained by volunteers.
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  jacobgorm
  The people behind Toit are the original people behind the V8 VM in Chrome. They know their stuff.
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  dofm
  Even I (as a sort of grudging cynic) now find myself thinking in these terms:Is this a language that an LLM can write well?Especially a small LLM, given the scripting and friendly IoT focus, where it might be useful for a smaller model in a home assistant to be able to write in it.A packageable scripting language with fewer footguns that has LLM-friendly features feels like it probably has a place in the world.But my own experience so far suggests that smaller LLMs in particular do better with simpler languages with obvious flow of control and less cleverness like metaprogramming.
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  heavensteeth
  This seems very interesting. It almost looks/feels like Pythonic Go.There's already another syntax example in the thread, but I want to point out the weirdest syntax I've seen yet: positional arguments look like posix command arguments: greet name/string="World" --greeting/string="Hello" -> string: return "$greeting $name" main: print (greet) // Prints Hello World. print (greet "Ada" --greeting="Hi") // Prints Hi Ada.
• AbuAssar
  I wish any product new release announcement include a brief introduction about the product itself...
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  close2
  I have used toit in a lot of my projects. It is a really nice language and so much cleaner than all the alternatives I have tried (Arduino, Python, Lua).The tools just work and I got used to the language really quickly.I did hate that it was bytecode. It just felt wrong to run bytecode on an ESP32. OTOH it just works, and I have never noticed any performance problems.My latest project is a controller for a slave-clock: https://gitlab.com/close2/nebenuhr-toit (There is also a Garmin repository that allows me to control the clock using my Garmin watch.)Full disclosure: I had to use toit (floitsch is my brother), but it really is a nice language and development environment.[Edit: typos..]
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  benrutter
  Looks interesting! I can't tell really from the docs the untended use case though. It says "scripts", but also " applications".Most importantly though (/s), is this toit as in "roof" in French, toit as in "to it", or otherwise?
• vim-guru
  Looks quite nice
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  mi_lk
  Who is using this? The company originally behind it has shut down
• mcphage
  Oh, good—I've been looking for a Round one for years.
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  Hamuko
  Is there some kind of an advertising blurb for why you’d want to use Toit, especially for scripting? I think the only thing I saw was “a readable language”, but I’d probably consider Python more readable than it judging from the examples.
• _s_a_m_
  The last thing this planet needs a new programming language