Just published my end-of-year overview. 2026 is the year I stop outlining and start building.

Would love to have a conversation with anyone interested in the topic!

https://warmsignull.github.io/posts/toward-a-unified-general-language-overview/

#programming #languagedesign #compilers #systemsprogramming #metaprogramming #introspection #opensource #buildinpublic

After thought (thought I didn’t plan to put into it), I don’t think "NULL coalescing" and "NULL chaining" needs to be built in to the #ProgrammingLanguage, and here’s why:

* If you’re getting just one thing, the getter can take an optional default result value. #Python works like this in `getattr`, `.get`, and things of that nature. Having an operator for this is fine, but it seems obvious you don’t **need** the language to do it for you.
* If you’re walking down a long uncertain chain, I have two arguments:
* Knowing the path that leads down into the object to the specific thing you want kinda sounds like an #Encapsulation violation. Why do you know so much about the internals of this object. If this deep property is important, maybe it’s part of the interface of the top-level thing. Maybe this is just bad design.
* Diving deeply involves lots of possibilities: possible defaults, actual methods of finding the named thing (allow inheritance? Is it an attribute? Is it an element of an array? Etc), did you want to just stop or raise an exception?Does saying what you want really come out to a simple, clean, understandable, one-line, expression?

Maybe I’m biased because I don’t have these operators in my day-to-day language; and also can’t remember hitting this situation. And I can certainly see such operators could be helpful. I’m not a language designer. But from my actual experience, in this case, the juice just isn’t worth the squeeze.

#NullCoalescing #NullChaining #LanguageDesign

Một học sinh trung học đã tạo ra ngôn ngữ lập trình thử nghiệm nhỏ tên Miracl! Hiện tại mới là phiên bản 0.1.0, có thể phân tích và chạy các biểu thức cơ bản. Mọi góp ý đều được hoan nghênh! 😊

#programming #languagedesign #sideproject #Miracl #lậptrình #ngônngữlậptrình #dựán

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1ovldke/i_created_a_tiny_experimental_programming/

This is a freaking awesome lecture.

Programming for All: A Feminist Case for Language Design

https://on.acm.org/t/programming-for-all-a-feminist-case-for-language-design/3398

#programming #LanguageDesign

ConcreteChars

#minacoding2025 #minacoding27 #imitate #Imagination #poetry #ruby #concrete poems #electronicliterature

For MinaCoding2025 Prompt 27: Imitate , ConcreteChars coded in Ruby is inspired by Nick Montfort’s Concrete Perl: https://nickm.com/poems/concrete_perl/ as well as the 256 bytes poemes. Instead of using Perl, the ruby code will be making concrete poems.

Poem Examples More in Blog: https://blog.illestpreacha.com/minacoding2025imitate

af
["as", "bb", "ba"]

["ay", "p", "c", "b", "aq"]

["ae", "p", "y", "ay", "ak", "ab", "az"]
["af", "x", "az", "m", "i"]
abalap
ae

q
["ab", "y", "af"]

["m", "aj", "av", "a", "b"]

["ac", "as", "ae", "v", "ad", "x", "d"]
["q", "am", "ac", "f", "ax"]
xbban
ac

#scifi #worldbuilding #minacoding #illestpreacha #conlangs #modelling #napogenmo #digitalmedia #codedpoems #creativecoding #languagedesign