Hello and goodbye to the J language
Read OriginalThe author details a 50-hour exploration of the J programming language, an APL descendant designed for mathematical notation and array-first programming. The article covers J's unique syntax, powerful array manipulation verbs, and supportive community, but concludes with the reasons for abandoning it: a tiny package ecosystem, a cumbersome FFI, lack of parallelism support, and the absence of fundamental data structures beyond arrays.
Comments
No comments yet
Be the first to share your thoughts!
Browser Extension
Get instant access to AllDevBlogs from your browser
Top of the Week
1
The Beautiful Web
Jens Oliver Meiert
•
2 votes
2
When your coding agent doesn’t understand your project, you’ll get junk
Benjamin Cane
•
1 votes
3
LLM Use in the Python Source Code
Miguel Grinberg
•
1 votes
4
Wagon’s algorithm in Python
John D. Cook
•
1 votes
5
An example conversation with Claude Code
Dumm Zeuch
•
1 votes