Astro Hacker News - The Mercury logic programming system

KnuthIsGod |next [-]

Last release was in 2023.

It is effectively dead.

This is a terrible shame, because this would have been an nice modern alternative to Prolog.

ElectroSlayer |next |previous [-]

Oh wow, Zoltan was one of my lecturers at UniMelb, and in one semester we were tasked with learning his Mercury language. So good to see it thriving still.

thechao |next |previous [-]

The closest that I could find to a "what the fuck is this?" page is:

https://www.mercurylang.org/about.html

ororroro |previous [-]

There are files in this repository that were last touched 32 years ago. Any reason to be posting it now?

kaonwarb |root |parent |next [-]

Not that it necessarily applies here, but as a heuristic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

epgui |root |parent |previous [-]

Why is that relevant or noteworthy? There are files that were updated recently too.

ororroro |root |parent [-]

Why the aggression? This language while cool has existed for decades and never taken off. I just wanted a reason to believe it relevant so I could have an excuse to take another look.

hackyhacky |root |parent [-]

Why do you think "oldest untouched file" is a good metric for relevance? Do you know what is the oldest untouched file in gcc or Python?