alt Hacker NewsI have my qualms with Janet. Mostly, it's lack of package management versioning and lack of libraries in general (advanced HTTP routing, etc).
I do LOVE that Janet can create binaries with JPM, scripts, and is very portable. I once put the Janet programming language on the Playdate game console as POC.
I actually do enjoy writing Janet, but every time I do people think I created the language (I did not).
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Have you tried jeep?
https://github.com/pyrmont/jeep/
It let's you vendor deps and easily install modern Janet bundles without jpm.
If you want server side, as veqq says there's joy which implements its own lightweight http server. If you want a client, it's quite trivial to use the Janet C API to wrap libcurl or any other HTTP client. If you're open to LLM development have the LLM write the wrappers and write your actual logic in Janet.
> advanced HTTP routing
What do you concretely mean by this? I use https://github.com/joy-framework/joy for all web stuff and can probably get your missing features in within the week.
WUT UP YOU FRICKEN H-nvm.
i watch ur streams on twitch lol
Julia Evans has a fun blog post using Julia to visualize Gunzip: https://jvns.ca/blog/2013/10/24/day-16-gzip-plus-poetry-equa...
you should totally do a "Janet writes Janet" version