I, for the millionth time, tried to go into the documentation to understand how Hoon works.
My TLDR: there’s streaks of absolute brilliance, particularly in the OS level. But it’s all so intentionally obfuscated with a dash of elitism thrown on top.
I think the most frustrating part was reading the Hoon tutorial (Hoon is their high-level programming language) and not understanding a single word. They use completely new terms, strange syntax & then throw in the casual “See? It’s that easy!”. Not even a comparison anywhere to traditional languages for reference (not that it’d help at all anyways)
My TLDR: there’s streaks of absolute brilliance, particularly in the OS level. But it’s all so intentionally obfuscated with a dash of elitism thrown on top.
I think the most frustrating part was reading the Hoon tutorial (Hoon is their high-level programming language) and not understanding a single word. They use completely new terms, strange syntax & then throw in the casual “See? It’s that easy!”. Not even a comparison anywhere to traditional languages for reference (not that it’d help at all anyways)
Never again.