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Re:Show HN: The Snap Programming Language by gallna on Thursday February 07, 2019 @05:38PM (#19109345)
Snap is a tiny optionally typed object oriented language with first class functions and coroutines. The interpreter targets the JVM including Android variants such as ART and Dalvik.
Re:Show HN: The Snap Programming Language by TheAsprngHacker on Friday February 08, 2019 @03:49PM (#19118531)
You might want to rename your programming language - when I saw this on the Show HN listing, I thought it was the educational programming language Snap!: https://snap.berkeley.edu / https://github.com/jmoenig/Snap.
Re:Show HN: The Snap Programming Language by gallna on Saturday February 09, 2019 @02:18PM (#19124029)
Thanks, I noticed this a while back and I have been intending to rename it .. writing a language/interpreter is the easy part, coming up with a name is the tricky bit ... suggestions welcome.
Re:Show HN: The Snap Programming Language by dgarud on Monday February 11, 2019 @04:25AM (#19133090)
Its pretty cool to have your own language + source code of games like mario! Is there a page where you compare language features - i.e what motivated you to create your own? Also, what is your team size and how long you all are behind this?
Re:Show HN: The Snap Programming Language by gallna on Monday February 11, 2019 @11:09AM (#19135456)
Thanks, its just me working on it as a hobby, there is no team. The reason I did this was part of a bigger project, writing Android games some of which I released. It gives a much nicer development experience.. i.e no emulators and no need for building and dexing. You simply update the source and press go :)
Re:Show HN: The Snap Programming Language by shiveringking on Saturday February 09, 2019 @05:10PM (#19124978)
I love your debugger/IDE and the detail that your readme goes into!