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Re:Cognition: A New Antisyntax Language Redefining Metaprogr... by ret2pop on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @11:31PM (#40232415)
Indeed. I am the writer of this blog post and Matthew and I never intended for this to be a joke. In fact, we thought we had programmed something unique that nobody had done before, and the bootstrapping code syntax is minimal by design (you don't want to assume a default complicated syntax).
Re:Cognition: A New Antisyntax Language Redefining Metaprogr... by vidarh on Thursday May 02, 2024 @12:11AM (#40232615)
Since you're here, note that I can't resize your text on Chrome on Android by default, and so I can't read your page on my phone at all without my glasses without switching the browser to desktop mode.
Re:Cognition: A New Antisyntax Language Redefining Metaprogr... by ret2pop on Thursday May 02, 2024 @12:17AM (#40232640)
Oof. I'll fix that in some time.
Re:Cognition: A New Antisyntax Language Redefining Metaprogr... by BoiledCabbage on Thursday May 02, 2024 @03:54AM (#40233759)
I think it's a really beautiful and innovative thing you've made here. And you should be proud of it.

I think a lot of people on HN nowadays can only see the world through the lens of Javascript and as a result really can't appreciate what this is.

Re:Cognition: A New Antisyntax Language Redefining Metaprogr... by jihiggins on Thursday May 02, 2024 @12:01PM (#40237750)
i think you might lose people in the transition from the turing tape machine style bootstrapping to using full "words" for operations. it might help to compare it to something like regexes? (obviously they're not similar in the way that forth / stack langs are, but they're more commonly known and more commonly thought of as useful)

i think it'd also help a lot to have some gifs of the state machine operating on stuff

or maybe you could have something with "syntax" highlighting. a navigable timeline that changes the highlighting based on the current ignore lists and / or stack contents as you step through the code could be neat