Simple programming language with offline usable browser IDE

I&#x27;ve always heard of this as Easylang <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;easylang.online&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;easylang.online&#x2F;</a><p>Is it just a re-branding as Tiki?<p>Anyway, the author does AoC every year in it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;easylang.online&#x2F;aoc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;easylang.online&#x2F;aoc&#x2F;</a> which I admit I have referenced during my own attempts.

This reminds me of Comal 80: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;c64&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1g8gqeu&#x2F;comal_for_the_c64_come_for_the_easy_turtle&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;c64&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1g8gqeu&#x2F;comal_for_the_...</a><p>A programming language halfway between Basic and Pascal, with old-style REPL and Logo-like turtle graphics.

Although simplistic it does remind me of my dream for a simplistic command driven language that actually does the tasks I want in a simple manner. I&#x27;m not thinking of tcl either, but if powershell was a lot faster and included support for a lot more things kind of like the graphics language mentioned here. Calling out to the Microsoft GUI tools is such a pain and not worth it given the glacial performance.

This really resonates for me. I have been thinking for sometime that it would be much more useful than scratch, if we could have a simple programming language with a simple canvas next to a text&#x2F;console output, both of which were separate from the editor.<p>And ta da!! You’ve done it.<p>I really think this is wonderful.

So, basically Logo.

Seems to be GPLv3 <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chkas&#x2F;easylang&#x2F;blob&#x2F;394e29a44458ac67f848366aac2accb0bb65cedd&#x2F;main&#x2F;easy.js#L7-L8">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chkas&#x2F;easylang&#x2F;blob&#x2F;394e29a44458ac67f8483...</a> although I <i>think</i> the line right above that stating &quot;All rights reserved&quot; is actually incompatible with GPLv3 which is designed to grant rights, not reserve them. I am not lawyerly enough to know what the story is with that &quot;must contain a built-in function&quot; clause.<p>Kind of sad it&#x27;s not self hosted yet :-D

I would love something like that for Lua.<p>Am I wrong to think that these language simplifications turn thing harder?<p>I would prefer to teach a real programming language, although introducing only a subset of features.<p>For example, pretend we have only variables, strings, numbers, booleans, &quot;ifs&quot;, &quot;fors&quot; and tables.<p>I think that&#x27;s enough to introduce someone to programming.

It&#x27;s like a DSL for graphics, really really cool!

Who is this aimed at? Kids? If so it is unbelievably far off the mark.