Ryelang Reddit group and Ryelang org domain, focus ...

After a motivating email by my unofficial handler :) (@otobrglez), I decided to move Rye up another step again. In the past, he also pushed me to put Rye on github, make it more orderly and presentable, able to run on docker, and other such bad things :).

A reddit group was created /r/ryelang. You are welcome to check it out, join, like and comment on things:

reddit.com/r/ryelang/

To kick things off, I've re-posted few more interesting examples from this blog there (with new accompanying text, mind you). And I've also created few original posts that might be of interest to you:

Rye basics: a gentle introduction trough Python examples #1

Rye basics: a gentle introduction trough Python examples #2

Rye basics: a gentle introduction trough Python examples #3

Domain

I also bought the domain, which will be the main hub around Rye language:

ryelang.org

There is not much there yet, just a few lines of Rye that run the webserver. I've never yet tested Rye on a long running tasks, where memory leaks could become apparent. These few lines of Rye have been running for days with no increase in memory consumption, so that's a good sign. You can see the code on the website itself.

This blog will also eventually move to ryelang.org.

I generally try to push content (Rye language in this case) and let the content itself (if/when worthy) push form, logistics, bureaucracy, PR forward ... That's why I didn't do these steps before. There is still tons of things to do on the language, but we are at least at a level, where I think there is something there there, and there is no turning back now.

Forward

These two are not the only changes. If until now was the time to experiment and test the language ideas in all possible and impossible directions and scenarios. We will a get more focused from now on. Focused on fewer areas, we want language to be useful the soonest:

utilities on the Linux shell (mostly server scenario)
webapplication / API servers
bots, nodes (telegram, nats, ...)

So the keywords for future development might be: console, http, databases, networking.

Oto said in his email, "Rye can't be and is NOT a drop-in replacement for Python, the most popular language on the planet with tens of years of development", so let's focus people! :)

I will also make a better protocol around github repository (I will post it in the repo itself) with more regular release schedule and two branches so that main branch always works.

That's it, now let's get to work!

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