Introducing Coconut

[justin walters]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 5:51 AM, Steven D'Aprano <
steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:

> Coconut, the functional programming language which compiles to Python:
>
> http://coconut.readthedocs.io/en/master/FAQ.html
>
> http://coconut-lang.org/
>
> (Its not my language. I just think its cool.)
>
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As someone who has been studying Elixir and Phoenix lately, This is pretty
neat.

There have definitely been some pieces of my Python projects that could
have benefited from a
Functional structure.

I don't think writing an entire project in Cocounut would be worth while.
At that point, why not use an actual FP language?
However, I do think it sounds useful for when certain parts of a project
could be cleaned up
or optimized with functional code. Almost like a better `functools`.

All that said though, I am interested to see performance metrics for the
transpiled python.