by akhilcacharya on 7/10/2015, 8:13:47 PM
by gldnspud on 7/10/2015, 7:22:19 PM
I found this via http://9to5mac.com/2015/07/10/google-ivy-experimental-big-nu....
That article speculated that it's a "companion tool for the [Go Programming Language] project".
I couldn't find any other references to iOS apps written using Go, so I'm going to speculate that Ivy itself was written in Go. :-)
by ctdonath on 7/10/2015, 7:46:19 PM
While I understand accurate handling of big numbers is difficult, I'm surprised it's not the general norm for calculator programs/apps by now. Glad to see someone has done so (not the first, but they are rare).
by minimaxir on 7/10/2015, 7:24:05 PM
...for certain definitions of big. 1e100000000 causes an app lock.
Also, what is going on with that app icon? Many startups nowadays have forced quirky-and-random mascots, but here it doesn't make much sense.
More information here -
https://sourcegraph.com/blog/live/gophercon2015/123653512740
"Example of porting a Go application to mobile ivy is a command line tool developed by Rob Pike.
It’s a useful desktop calculator that hangles big int, rational and floating-point numbers, vectors, matrices. It’s an interpreter for an APL-like language.
It is ~5k lines of Go code (not including tests, docs). It imports math, math/big, unicode, etc.
Rewriting all that in Java or Objective-C would be a lot of work and is a non-starter, since this is already just works in Go.
After 2 hours, Hana had a working prorotype."