Show HN: Minimal Reader for the ESV Bible, Written in Janet

One thing that bothers me about modern Christianity is that I don’t think Christian Bibles or worship songs should be copyrighted. I understand why they feel the need to protect their work but it seems like that work should be funded with donations and not by restricting how many verses of the Bible a person can copy at a time, which according to the license you included is what the ESV Bible requires.<p>Cool project though, I like the idea of being able to read the Bible without accidentally pressing play on an audio version.

This is great! Hadn&#x27;t heard of this API before. I was just tinkering with a small Bible cli in bash using time TSV-formatted Bible data, but now I think I&#x27;ll just check this out!

Very nice. I love the ESV translation. If you&#x27;re into minimal Bible versions and old-school protocols, here&#x27;s my ESV Bible on gopher:<p>gopher:&#x2F;&#x2F;gopher.black&#x2F;1&#x2F;bible

Looks nice yet I feel like reading the Bible or whatever alike in a single translation makes little sense. IMHO viewing the originals + all the possible translations for every word + a number of translations to a number of languages in parallel is a must if you want to know what was actually written there. G-d bless.

Whoa this is really cool. I&#x27;ve seen janet on HN a few times now!<p>It&#x27;s a pretty great language

Yea the ESV API is really cool. Thanks for the share

I had this idea two days ago, but to do it with Douay-Rheims. Then I fiddled around and came to the conclusion that my laptop is too bright for heavy reading even with white text on black background. Maybe an OLED laptop would alleviate eye strain for long reading at night, can anyone confirm?

I&#x27;ve long had the dream of a bible app that functions like Google Photos. One scrollbar, top is Genesis, bottom is Revelation. I&#x27;ve given it some thought, but haven&#x27;t written any code yet. @jonstaab is that something you&#x27;d be interested in collaborating on?<p>Edit: fix typo in name

Really responsive, smooth interface. Great work.

Thank you for publishing this example, it looks great. I noticed that it works with Heroku, would you be open to trying it on OpenFaaS Cloud using the free Community Cluster?<p>It should be easier to use than Heroku and you can encrypt your API keys using SealedSecrets too.<p>Reach out? alex@openfaas.com<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openfaas&#x2F;community-cluster&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;docs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openfaas&#x2F;community-cluster&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;do...</a>

I&#x27;ve always wanted a Bible without verse numbers.

I see a header with a search box and the rest of the page is blank. Chrome 78.0.3904.70<p>Console: (index):247 Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read property &#x27;length&#x27; of undefined at search ((index):247) search @ (index):247 async function (async) search @ (index):245 (anonymous) @ (index):130

Awesome. Any chance it can have an option for using other translations? Big fan of RSVCE personally.

Is this (janet) a lisp interpreter ?

If I scroll up to&#x2F;past Luke 21, it goes blank with &quot;No results found&quot;. Firefox 70.0.1. I like the minimalist style though.

Refreshingly simple. Well done.

awesome! I used to use emacs with an api key to read ESV, this is nice.

I like the ESV API, hadn&#x27;t seen that before.<p>Thanks, author.

I don’t have a problem with people finding comfort or something of value in religion, but also don’t think that a rationalist community like HN should assist in promulgating religion any further into society than it already is.

The fact that there is an API to publish verse by verse the text of one book, i.e. a handful of megabytes uncompressed, is interesting.<p>The fact that this book happens to be a book of which there is a copy in every hotel room makes it a bit paradoxical.<p>The fact that this book is the scripture for a religion which considers usury a capital sin makes it the best example of artificial scarcity i can think of.

It&#x27;s immoral to teach your kids anti-science truth or co-science truth. There is one truth, scientific truth, and you should pause before beginning the process of teaching your kid that there are optional, comfort based co-science truths. Having said that, it&#x27;s neat reader.