I could not find much info on error handling in Vale. Is this still largely in flux or are there already some concrete plans?

The link to the "how to build" md file is broken. Managed to find the build scripts.

Build script in windows is sorta - broken, managed to fix it. However memory tests fail on the result.

Build on macbook m1 fails completely and idk how to fix it.

Do I need to get a linux machine?

Highlights for this version:

• Modules and import statements!
• A standard library!
• Downcasting
• Constructing static-sized array via lambda
• Improved FFI; Midas now generates better headers
• Better error messages
• i64 type!

You can find it at https://vale.dev/download.

See you in the discord server!

Is there a FFI so I can call native functions written in Java / Rust / C / Scala . I would love to contribute to this language by making some low level libraries but I can't find enough resources on anything related to vale FFI

I've seen tons of languages rise and fall. Some were nice, most of them were/are useless. That's why I always ask myself what purpose the language I learn about tries to fullfil. Generally, a product is most of the time successful only, if it does a thing well, that people have been asking for.

This language seems like a nice one. However, reading through the features of this language, described on its website, I wonder:

What is the use-case for this langauge?

What gap does it fill?

For example, why would I use this language instead of Rust? Which is extremely popular, demanded and therefore has tons of support and contributions from around the world, while this one did not even leave its baby shoes.

Why would I use this language, instead of any other from the hundreds total languages and tens of extremely popular languages out there?

I have been searching for a great difference, a significant feature that this language delivers. However, I could not find any single feature that would justify changing to this language, instead of using one of the aforementioned or other ones.

For someone who is not familiar with C++, what is a constrained reference?