2026-07-22 09:27 UTC
@numeredevs@fosstodon.org @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net I checked out the project, and it's interesting how NumeRe does the other half of what Kap has been focusing on.
If I understand things correctly, in NumeRe, the data analysis and visualisation comes first. The programming language appears to have grown out of these needs? Kap went the other way, starting our with a language that is convenient to use interactively and solves some of the main issues in other array languages. The UI came after, and is there primarily to serve the capabilities of the language.
My video clips mainly show the UI, because it's easier to show, but the main effort is in the language itself.
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@numeredevs@fosstodon.org 2026-07-22 09:48
@loke@functional.cafe @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net Funny, isn't it? Now you understand what I meant with the same gap but different audiences, don't you? You're right, I guess. We started with a simple data analysis software to solve student's needs during data processing. Plotting and fitting was one of the major tasks. The automation using scripts came with it, but grew while solving the original task. But yeah, early users were using it purely with the imperative command language in the terminal.