Comment by palmotea
7 hours ago
> They're just now implementing the implementation language, R'.
They haven't done their due diligence: there's already a well-known language named R: https://www.r-project.org/. The prime isn't sufficient disambiguation.
I assume they know but don't care. Either way, that is a bad choice. I think "Rad" would be a good name, but maybe they already are using that for something else.
Edit: where did you see it's called "R"? It looks like they call the system language "Radiance" : https://radiant.computer/system/radiance/
https://radiant.computer/system/radiance/prime/
Ah, so no quite "R", but "R'" (R Prime).
I assumed R and R' are prototypical bootstrapping variants of what will be the full-fledged Radiant language, but that wasn't explicitly written anywhere.
well-known "language" (air quotes)