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If anyone wants to help with my "Alonzo" visual functional programming language...
I'll welcome contributions to the core, or if you want to tackle more tangential we don't need to coordinate as much on...
How about a Lua CRDT library? Pure-Lua implementation would aid porting.
Or a functional JIT (which could eventually run Alonzo programs) would be neat! Ensuring speed is less of a reason to switch to a "real" programming language.
As Alonzo comes together I'll ask for more.
@kris_of_pnictogen Yup!
The primary benefit is immediate feedback upon entering code which doesn't typecheck. Rather than a compiler yelling at you, the block simply won't fit in that slot.
Scratch is the primary prior art here. Though it has its issues, leading it to feel like a toy.
@alcinnz okay I guess we're gonna have to look at that, because the idea of programming through geometric figures has occurred to us but we haven't checked it out yet. thanks
@alcinnz I want to help but I am not familiar with Lua or Love2D yet and don't have the capacity to get myself up to speed at the moment.
I am especially interested in what the documentation strategy for Alonzo looks like (because of course I am lol). I'm more than willing to contribute on that front at any point.
@liberty There's several you could contribute without needing to learn Lua/Love. Though most of them would be best left to the new year when I'll hopefully have the core together!
There would be writing documentation for the website.
Any of the "standard libraries" I'm describing would be most empowering when implemented in pure Alonzo. That'd help show how capable it is!
Ofcourse it'd help just to see others playing with it.
And I'm probably overlooking things.
@alcinnz Sounds good! I look forward to contributing. And I do mean to learn the underlying tech at some point.
I am curious: what does documentation of Alonzo programs look like? Either now or planned.
@liberty What I'm envisioning so far is that clicking on the canvas for a function will create a free-floating string-literal there you can use as comments.
These free-floating expressions wouldn't do anything.
Perhaps a standard lib could be created to offer richer notation for doc comments? And generate webpages from it?
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@alcinnz a *visual* programming language?