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Joker_vD • yesterday at 10:11 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

Surprisingly, the most irritating nitpick for me is the choice of the file extension — surely that should've been ".cu", not ".co"? If I were developing an e.g. Iron programming language (hypothetically — although perhaps so named a language already exists), I'd pick ".fe" in a heartbeat.

Then again, I'm the kind of person who've chosen $'.\U0001F9CC' (that is, $'.\xF0\x9F\xA7\x8C') for a file extension of my own toy language so...


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vopi • yesterday at 10:43 PM

Unfortunately for Copper in particular, .cu is associated with CUDA (so perhaps that’s why).

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dapperhn • yesterday at 10:56 PM

Not a programming language, but Jane Street has (had?) a code review tool called Iron, abbreviated "fe".

https://blog.janestreet.com/code-review-that-isnt-boring/

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anonymous908213 • yesterday at 10:14 PM

I like the way you think.

mikkelam • yesterday at 10:30 PM

You're appreciated