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Comment by avmich

Have some experience with J, would like to comment.

> A jupyter notebook style ide+repl (maybe a bqn for of RIDE)

J terminal looks pretty close.

> libraries for common scripting tasks

There are phrases (see www.jsoftware.com), but for many tasks it seems not many libraries are actually needed.

> embedding (a la lua) in more languages, maybe even a way to compile to libs so you can call bqn code from other languages

There is a way to call C from J and vice versa; not too convenient maybe... but still quite possible. APL languages don't benefit much from compilation, J interpreter is very fast.

parent avmich 4 years ago

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