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Six programming languages I’d like to see
The interesting semantic relationships are those that let the machine automatically deduce optimizations
> I also like the idea of modifying function definitions at runtime. I have these visions/nightmares of programs that take other programs as input and then let me run experiments on how the program behaves under certain changes to the source code. I want to write metaprograms dammit
Lotta metaprogramming in Joy. Many functions work by building new functions and running them, it's a natural idiom in Joy.
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> A language designed around having first-class GUI support
Red? ( https://www.red-lang.org/ )
> Visual Interface Dialect ... is a dialect of Red, providing the simplest possible way to specify graphic components with their properties, layouts and even event handlers. VID code is compiled at runtime to a tree of faces suitable for displaying.
https://github.com/red/docs/blob/master/en/gui.adoc
> You can’t work with strings, json, sets, or hash maps very well, date manipulation is terrible, you can barely do combinatorics problems, etc etc etc. I want a language that’s terse for everything.
That also sounds like Red.
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Beads: The next generation computer language and toolchain
> They are well funded.
Rebol Technologies went bankrupt, and Rebol is de-facto dead since more than a decade; Red barely manages to get by thanks to a recent crypto spike.
> I would say the languages are very different in the sense that Beads is clearly aimed at graphical interactive software.
So is Red with it's native GUI engine. [1]
> They are so different that it is hard to compare.
Both share the same goal of replacing modern software practices with biased, batteries-included toolchain, varying only in implementation.
> Red being a concatenative language has more in common with FORTH than Algol.
Red is not concatenative in any sense of the word, nor any other language in Rebol family that I know of.
[1]: https://github.com/red/docs/blob/master/en/view.adoc
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One Way to Represent Things
> What if a simpler programming language had first-class representations of a lot more than strings and arrays?
Red lang?
> Where most languages have 6-8 base datatypes, Red has almost 50.
https://github.com/red/docs/blob/master/en/datatypes.adoc
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What engine do you use for making true IF games?
Inform 7 is the most popular IF engine. The best place to download it in 2023 is from GitHub: https://github.com/ganelson/inform/releases
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Open source Inform available for multiple platforms
Releases can currently be found via this link: https://github.com/ganelson/inform/releases
- I am writing an interactive fiction builder in C#. I decided to put it to the test by recreating Zork 1
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Six programming languages I’d like to see
Did you know Inform is now (finally) open source?! https://github.com/ganelson/inform
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Gaiman: Programming language for text-based games in browser
Inform 6 is still being developed, and Inform 7 went open source earlier this year: https://github.com/ganelson/inform
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Is there a way to package an interpreter with a story?
Here's the github repo, it was just open sourced last week. You can compile it from source now, and I imagine the UI frontends will be updated in a couple of weeks. IIRC, compiling directly to other languages is now possible, although I'm not sure how much that impacts your use case.
- First python text-based adventure
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Inform 7 now open source
For those who don't know it, Inform 7 is the venerable "design system" for interactive fiction. It has been freely available for some time with the promise of a release as open source for some time now. Looks like that has happened.
- Inform 7 is now open source
What are some alternatives?
beads-examples - Examples of Beads programs
gruescript - Point-and-click text adventure maker
power-fx-host-samples - Samples for hosting Power Fx engine.
zork1 - Zork I (Microcomputer Version) by Infocom
ODS_OpenExposureData - Open data standards curated by Oasis.
letlang - Functional language with a powerful type system.
inform7-ide - A design system for interactive fiction based on natural language.
Graal - GraalVM compiles Java applications into native executables that start instantly, scale fast, and use fewer compute resources 🚀
Lazy - Lazily evaluated (late-binding) definition for Dyalog APL
halo - An experimental graph-based meta programming language