▲The Mercury logic programming system(github.com)
47 points by Antibabelic 1 day ago | 4 comments
▲KnuthIsGod 14 minutes ago
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 2 hours ago
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 1 hour ago
The closest that I could find to a "what the fuck is this?" page is:

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

▲ororroro 1 hour ago
There are files in this repository that were last touched 32 years ago. Any reason to be posting it now?
▲kaonwarb 18 minutes ago
Not that it necessarily applies here, but as a heuristic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
▲ororroro 5 minutes ago
Interesting point. My understanding of Mercury is that it is hard carried by Zoltan so it has a bus factor of 1.
▲epgui 1 hour ago
Why is that relevant or noteworthy? There are files that were updated recently too.
▲ororroro 58 minutes ago
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 38 minutes ago
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?