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Just taking one example (AngelScript), it's not really "fledgling" (not even sure the meaning of that, but it says "This site provides a list of programming languages which are just starting out in the world."). It's been around since 2005... Maybe it's just "a list of languages that I've just started to read about recently".

Neat in the end, but should do with more information on how they were recognized as "fledgling".

EDIT: found the criteria (doh!) http://fll.presidentbeef.com/criteria and I searched "fledgling", AngelScript doesn't fit that category, it's a mature language used in lots of video games. If a language doesn't have a book written for it doesn't mean it's not "popular"...

On the flip side, Idris is listed depite

    - a wiki article,
    - a book, "Type-Driven Development with Idris" by the language author, and
    - a subreddit

So I'm guessing it's just not a super well-maintained list.

I can't say about how the site is maintained (i.e. who makes the various decisions about each language) but it's updated quite regularly. I have changedetection.com monitoring the site and changes happen all the time. Here's the recent change list: https://www.changedetection.com/log/presidentbeef/fll/index_...

Edit. Also, "This site exists to promote languages which are in development or have not yet reached a wider audience." I'd agree that none of the listed languages have reached a wide audience in (terms of usage anyway) regardless of the other criteria. But it's all relative and I do really like the site.

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Nimrod is listed as Nim, although the URL is still "nimrod".

To be fair, the book isn't complete yet and it hasn't nearly reached 1.0 yet. Some other listed languages are at similar stages of development, like Nim, Crystal, Ceylon, Elm, and Julia (in fact, a few of these seem closer to a production-ready product than Idris does). I assume most of these will be removed after an official 1.0 launch.

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