Show HN: An Easy Programming Language – Built with WebAssembly

The syntax&#x2F;formatting reminds me of Lingo [0]. But also Logo and Basic.<p>One of the things I really liked about coding in Lingo (in Director [1]) was the sparse syntax but the code auto-highlighted as you typed. (not common back then) But also auto indented as you typed. It was really easy and fast to program with.<p>The graphics code reminded me of &quot;hi-res&quot; graphics programming on the Apple computer. Some nostalgia there.<p>This brings me around to how magical it felt to program things for the first time as a kid, and how there doesn&#x27;t seem to be an environment for this kind of excitement or discovery anymore.<p>Maybe just a change of times, like how the first planes and auto-mobiles were created by hobbyists, but those times are mostly gone.<p>Any notion on what a language like this would be good for? I get the impression maybe similar to my own nostalgia...<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lingo_(programming_language)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lingo_(programming_language)</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Adobe_Director" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Adobe_Director</a>

<p><pre><code> a = 11 if a = 10 </code></pre> Great way to set someone up for failure when they switch to any C-like language!<p>I personally have experienced people finding it easier to grasp a construct such as <i>a := 1</i> or <i>let a = 1</i>. The way most programming languages assign values to variables conflicts with the notion of equations, which is familiar to a lot of people by the time they learn to write programs.

All I see is &quot;Loading ...&quot; and when looking at the console I see things like &quot;Content Security Policy: The page’s settings blocked the loading of a resource at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;easyprog.online&#x2F;games&#x2F;easyw.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;easyprog.online&#x2F;games&#x2F;easyw.js</a> (“worker-src”).&quot;.

I like it, it is very well made and organized. I jumped to Monte Carlo methods and examples clearly explained what it was. I think this is great layout for teaching. Thank you for making it.

I really like this. Could you make the page load with the first demo code pre-loaded? I sat there looking at the code and hitting &quot;run&quot;, checking the browser console to see if there was any error. Then I realised I had to press &quot;load&quot; first and then &quot;run&quot;.<p>Also, one bit of criticism: if it&#x27;s not too late I&#x27;d also re-think the name. &quot;Easyprog&quot; is going to make any newbies really frustrated when they can&#x27;t figure something out and the site is just mocking them: &quot;lol, you can&#x27;t figure it out and it&#x27;s so EASY!&quot;.<p>Other than that, I think this is a great project - really well done, and it has a lot of potential to me really great learning tool.

Pretty cool! Is the source on GitHub? If not, do you plan to put it there under an open source license?

Evokes logo&#x2F;pilot with turtle graphics; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;PILOT" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;PILOT</a> and <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> which were both great fun back in the day...