Toit v2.0.0

The wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toit is short but still gives a lot of context.

This seems very interesting. It almost looks/feels like Pythonic Go.

There's already another syntax example in the thread, but I want to point out the weirdest syntax I've seen yet: positional arguments look like posix command arguments:

   greet name/string="World" --greeting/string="Hello" -> string:
     return "$greeting $name"

   main:
     print (greet)                         // Prints Hello World.
     print (greet "Ada" --greeting="Hi")    // Prints Hi Ada.

   Toit is a language for writing scripts on your computer and applications on your ESP32. A readable syntax, an efficient runtime, and tools that work together.

   Free and open source. Maintained by volunteers.

The people behind Toit are the original people behind the V8 VM in Chrome. They know their stuff.

Here's a beginner tutorial for the language: https://docs.toit.io/language/toitversus

Nice syntax. It looks like how we'd design programming if C had never existed.

  add a/int b/int -> int:
    return a + b
  
  main:
    print (add 2 3)  // Prints 5.

Looks interesting! I can't tell really from the docs the untended use case though. It says "scripts", but also " applications".

Most importantly though (/s), is this toit as in "roof" in French, toit as in "to it", or otherwise?

The last thing this planet needs a new programming language

Looks quite nice

Who is using this? The company originally behind it has shut down

Is there some kind of an advertising blurb for why you’d want to use Toit, especially for scripting? I think the only thing I saw was “a readable language”, but I’d probably consider Python more readable than it judging from the examples.