How do you prototype a nice language?
I’ve spent the past month prototyping my codeCAD language.
However, while I’ve made tons of zero-to-one-type progress (an EBNF grammar, parser, function definitions, evaluation, and numeric solving!), the current possible demos are all terribly underwhelming — think the game programmer’s “triangle with color gradient” or the hardware engineer’s “PCB with a single blinking LED”.
However, even once I’m further along I suspect the demos will be fairly underwhelming — I’m not one-shot prompting my w...
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