Re:Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language
by thomasfl on Saturday April 18, 2026 @03:15AM
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The brunost programming language could be very useful for norwegian government agencies. It is common to use norwegian names for variables and functions at the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV in Norwegian). A subset of typescript where the reserved words are written in nynorsk, would help prevent misunderstanding.
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Re:Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language
by keybored on Saturday April 18, 2026 @03:56AM
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I don’t understand how having 65–100 keywords localized makes any difference. People can use these kinds of mixed registers for specific niches and it seems seamless to everyone.
Re:Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language
by starefossen on Saturday April 18, 2026 @04:35AM
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Most of the source code for the Norwegian welfare system is published openly on https://github.com/navikt (4K repos)
Re:Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language
by thomasfl on Saturday April 18, 2026 @07:35AM
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It is a lot of good code there.
Re:Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language
by atomfinger on Saturday April 18, 2026 @09:47AM
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If there is a market for that, then I would build a new language from the ground up that is... better designed.
Brunost is just me throwing syntax at the wall to make a "nynorsk programming language". Less about careful design and more about getting something to work.
If I were to make a language intended for an important production system, it would be a compiled language that (probably) would go the Gleam route and compile to JS and some other language, while also being typesafe, having a package manager and so forth.