Show HN: An Easy Programming Language That Runs in the Browser

What&#x27;s under the hood?<p>The source code is parsed to an <i>AST</i>, which is then executed. It began with a <i>Java-Applet</i>. When <i>WebAssembly</i> appeared, I ported it to <i>C++</i> with a <i>JS&#x2F;HTML</i> interface and added graphics. Recently I converted the <i>C++</i> part to <i>C</i>, which halved the size of the <i>wasm</i> file.

The original Javascript was intended as an easy language that runs in the browser. And so it was in 1996.<p>In reality, it seems, a successful language that runs in the browser had no way around becoming a &quot;full-blown&quot; language, as opposed to &quot;easy&quot;.

I’m a huge fan of these sorts of simple programming languages. I consider the simplicity of Purebasic and TI-83&#x2F;89 Basic to be one of the main reasons I was able to successfully get into programming in high school despite not having any programming classes. I was also simultaneously learning x86 ASM and while that was also super fun, my Basic programming was far ahead of my ASM. Being able to successfully build simple games in Basic is extremely motivating when learning to code.

Nice! It would be more fitting for the style of this language if &#x27;end&#x27; were used instead of &#x27;.&#x27; imho

I think there&#x27;s more value to be had in building better learning resources around programming languages than continually trying to simplify them at the expense of power.<p>Besides that, if someone is already looking for a simple scripting language, Lua already exists. I personally prefer its syntax as well.

Reminds me of the old educational graphics programming language Logo.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Logo_(programming_language)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Logo_(programming_language)</a>

Really cool. Is there a project repository, and are you accepting contributions?

Great! Brings back the simplicity of Basic and QBasic. How easy it was to draw, animate and create music.

The source is actually pretty readable, do you have a git repository anywhere so others can contribute?

Nice work! I would love it if we could get something like a codepen.io for this language, so we could share and debug code with people learning to program.

Impressive! But why?

Fantastic work. Hope it finds its niche and grows

Very cool, both the graphics capabilities and the fact that it&#x27;s Wasm!<p>Is this project open source?

Cool! Thanks for sharing.

There should be something like this except functional&#x2F;immutable

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