Hello, fellow capsuleers! Just docked. Anyone here working on interesting programming language or compiler projects? Using any relatively obscure languages? Programming any vintage hardware? Excited about any new projects? I'd love to hear about it!

7 months ago · 👍 cosmo, bavarianbarbarian, chirale, not4uffinonmobile

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@lowpass - I didn't know what typist was, so ... thanks for making me aware! · 7 months ago

@lowpass Neat point about Clojure, I didn't know about that! ^_^ My project had a bunch of other weird ideas in it; I wanted strong unicode support and the ability to write keywords in other languages as long as its consistent within a file (if -> si, etc). Variables would be dynamically typed but would always belong to a certain type concept (vaguely like C concepts) which would emit runtimes if a variable's set to something that doesn't conform to its concept. I never got to implementing those ideas but I still think they were neat ^_^" · 7 months ago

I did program a n application In python, and a chat bot with the start of a scripting language, to write Gemini Spartan blogs faster, And i been trying to do some modern projects with QB64 · 7 months ago

@lowpass i have this stuff... but i was not aware that an old HDD would attack me from behind xD · 7 months ago

@cosmo: Nice! It kind of reminds me of accessing namespace components in Clojure, e.g., (clojure.core/println "Hello, world!"). Obviously not quite the same thing though. · 7 months ago

@bavarianbarbarian: You need some shin guards and steel toe boots! · 7 months ago

Bit of an old project for me, but a few years ago I made a AST interpreter in a month for my own lil language >:) The main gimmick was that object orientation was described with a folder-like syntax, i.e. having a class C derived from B then A nets you "Object b = /A/B/C/new()", and accessing object members within a member function uses syntax like "./x". I thought it'd be a good way of representing OOP such that it was more comprehensible for novice programmers (since this forbids multi-inheritance and constantly makes the inheritence explicit) · 7 months ago

i only do my very best to hurt me with my vintage hardware collection, like dropping hdds from the 80ies on my leg xD · 7 months ago

@half_elf_monk: That sounds nice! It has been a while since I used beamer, but it was very useful at the time. Have you tried using Typst for slides at all? · 7 months ago

The point is, someday, to write it in minimalist markdown, but still get pretty results in beamer. · 7 months ago

It's not vintage hardware, but I'm constructing a custom package for markdown/beamer/LaTeX slide presentations to look prettier, and include columns and nice images on the side ... when I put up a textwall in the main focus. It's fun, but by now I've clearly hit milestones on this graph: https://xkcd.com/1319/ · 7 months ago