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Jevko: a minimal general-purpose syntax
Yes, S-expressions come in many flavors, some more minimal than others, some binary. They are all truly wonderful.
The most wonderful to me are the simplest ones, and Jevko grows out of the same spirit as them.
However, it does not attempt to be a new flavor of S-expressions and diverges in ways which to me are worth looking at. I hope it can appeal and be useful not only to minimalist syntax enthusiasts.
BTW Some time ago I've been also experimenting with binary versions of Jevko, certainly with inspiration from both netstrings and Rivest's csexps:
https://github.com/jevko/binary-experiments#asttolengthprefi...
Since then I had some more ideas which I hope to get around to implementing at some point.
examples
- Labeled ordered trees encoded with Jevko and visualized with Dot diagrams
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Jevko: a minimal general-purpose syntax
Thank you for your feedback. Can you clarify?
What is the "first page" that you are referring to?
Can you paste a link to it along with the broken examples link?
This Hacker News submission features the blog post under this URL:
https://djedr.github.io/posts/jevko-2022-02-22.html
Clearly, you are not talking about this page, as that contains multiple links rather than a singular link.
Perhaps you are talking about the specification which is here:
https://github.com/jevko/specifications/blob/master/spec-sta...
(linked from the blog post)
and here:
(linked from jevko.org)
All three link to Jevko examples here:
https://github.com/jevko/examples
but all these examples links seem to be correct on my end.
I agree about the importance of examples, and I try to lead with them on jevko.org and jevko.github.io (which are the front pages of Jevko -- possibly I should merge them into one).
However a formal specification is not necessarily the place to put the leading examples.
This is also where the Subjevko rule is defined. It isn't quite introduced as "known knowledge" -- the purpose of a specification is to define the unknown, more or less from the ground up. This is also why specifications tend to get a little abstract. Jevko's spec is no exception. This should be in line with expectations of authors of tools such as parsers, validators, generators, or other kinds of processors, for which the spec is the authoritative reference.
It is not necessarily the best first place to look for explanation, if you are approaching from a more casual side.
I agree that from that side a clear picture of what Jevko is and how it can be used is still lacking. I certainly should add more examples and explain the concepts with analogies.
So I appreciate the essence of your advice and hope I'll manage to improve on that.
What are some alternatives?
specifications - Specifications related to Jevko.
easyjevko.lua - An Easy Jevko library for Lua.
community - Features Jevko-related things created by various authors
markup-experiments - A collection of experiments with Jevko and text markup.
yapl - YAml Programming Language
writing - A public place for unpolished technical writing.
treenotation.org - TreeNotation.org website
jevkalk - A Jevko-based interpreter.
interjevko.js - Experimental Schema-based Minimal Data Interchange with Jevko.