(🔊) Made a little harness to livecode vscode extensions.

Here I change the extension (local to the project) to treat notes in parens as a chord.

No more compile, close, re-open workflow. And that's assuming you've created the extension to begin with. I often make one-off short-lived things and having to manage an extension is annoying.

Now I can just have a .vscode-sandbox.js in each project and make useful little one-off things.

Event though it's cool with new PLs, I still would like to see innovation around other things than typing or control flow.

I don't mean I'm not impressed with (for example) the memory safety of Rust, but all the innovation still happens within a tight boundary.

It's not that we're fishing out the lake, but .. I mean, how about challenging the need for files at all in a development environment? There are so few examples of this that there should be a lot of innovation possible.

Or how about what happens when you combine storage and execution environments. Some things happen there, but not a lot.

The only truly bonkers thing with a lot of legs is Wasm, providing language-specific things like GC, glib/ system APIs, et.c. so that the language is left with .. just being language.

That means that any new language that implements Wasm will have everything served on a platter and be able to import stuff from any other Wasm compatible language.

That's the kind of innovation I'm talking about.

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Two years ago I spent a lot of time and effort creating a new programming language. A Clojure-inspired LISP for the JavaScript age, called Piglet. And I just... never really announced it publicly, even though I think it's genuinely a cool and interesting project.

Lately I've started working on it again, and I think it's time to show it to the world.

https://github.com/piglet-lang/piglet

Here's a cut of some of my interactive and visual work from the past year.

I'm looking for work! I'm looking for remote work developing, prototyping and/or researching on editors, custom interactive things, or visualizations. I mostly work in JS/TS. Let me know if you know something pls ty :)