I just came across ** [Min](https://min-lang.org) ** [[GH]](https://github.com/h3rald/min), a [concatenative](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenative_programming_language#Implementations) scripting language written in Nim by [Fabio](https://github.com/h3rald).
* * * EMPHASIS ON MAIN LINK: [MIN-LANG.ORG](https://min-lang.org) * * * It was [announced on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/nim/comments/6qkzd9/min_programming_language_implemented_in_nim/) but not here, whereas I would like to encourage everyone to give priority to this forum instead... So, to get the conversation here going, here's about five minutes worth of my random thoughts about Min: * Much of [this concat theory stuff](http://evincarofautumn.blogspot.it/2012/02/why-concatenative-programming-matters.html) is over my head right now, but right off the bat I was able to have some simple [RPL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation) fun in the Min [REPL shell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read–eval–print_loop). * Looking at the [Min lib code](https://github.com/h3rald/min/tree/master/lib) shows how easy it is to wrap Nim code and export it to Min. But examples of how Min can be used (so far just [within the hastysite](https://github.com/h3rald/hastysite/tree/master/scripts) SSG) are very simplistic. * It would be interesting to have a discussion on what role Min can have within the Nim development ecosystem. As an imperative philistine, I currently don't understand its value beyond getting a conceptual understanding of a different seldom-used programming paradigm. I do understand the value of having scripting logic in run-time configuration files (especially for large programs like text editors and games), but in what situations is Min preferable to embedding [Lua](https://github.com/nim-lang/lua), JS, [Python](https://github.com/jboy/nim-pymod#what-about-calling-python-from-nim), etc? * This is a second homoiconic interpreted language I've heard about written in Nim (not counting [NimScript](https://nim-lang.org/docs/nims.html)). The first was [Spry](http://sprylang.org) [[GH]](https://github.com/gokr/spry) (inspired by Smalltalk and Rebol, formerly known as [Ni](http://goran.krampe.se/2016/04/08/ni-is-now-spry/)). Let me know if I missed any others. It would be interesting to discuss how they compare.
