Isaac Van Doren (Sep 27 2023 at 23:16): Isaac Van Doren (Sep 27 2023 at 23:16):It would be awesome to get Roc on Exercism at some point. It's a very cool and welcoming platform and a nice way to learn new languages, plus it would help more people find out about Roc. Creating the exercises would be a decent amount of work so it would take a good amount of volunteer effort to get it up and running.
Brendan Hansknecht (Sep 27 2023 at 23:21):That's a really cool idea, Though I definitely question if roc is too unstable currently. Might lead to a broken and frustrating experience without regular updating
Isaac Van Doren (Sep 27 2023 at 23:23):Yes that's true
Luke Boswell (Sep 28 2023 at 01:25):In the meantime we have been building a collection of examples over at roc-lang/examples. There are plenty of good first issues there for anyone who would like to contribute. Just take a small pure Roc concept and provide some explanation for beginners. These should be going live on the next website update too, so any assistance would be a big help for newcomers I think.
Luke Boswell (Sep 28 2023 at 01:27):For example this issue is for someone to explain how to do a while loop in Roc. Take an imperative idea and show how to achieve the same thing using a pure functional language.
Luke Boswell (Sep 28 2023 at 01:28):I forgot to mention, I also love the Exercism idea, but it's probably a bit early.
Anton (Sep 29 2023 at 08:03):We could of course make a repo with exercism-style exercises that new users can use for now and we can put them up on exercism when the language is ready.
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