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Show HN: The Snap Programming Language (github.com)
10 points by gallna 2695 days ago
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Snap is a tiny optionally typed object oriented language with first class functions and coroutines. The interpreter targets the JVM including Android variants such as ART and Dalvik.
You might want to rename your programming language - when I saw this on the Show HN listing, I thought it was the educational programming language Snap!: https://snap.berkeley.edu / https://github.com/jmoenig/Snap.
Thanks, I noticed this a while back and I have been intending to rename it .. writing a language/interpreter is the easy part, coming up with a name is the tricky bit ... suggestions welcome.
Its pretty cool to have your own language + source code of games like mario! Is there a page where you compare language features - i.e what motivated you to create your own? Also, what is your team size and how long you all are behind this?
Thanks, its just me working on it as a hobby, there is no team. The reason I did this was part of a bigger project, writing Android games some of which I released. It gives a much nicer development experience.. i.e no emulators and no need for building and dexing. You simply update the source and press go :)
I love your debugger/IDE and the detail that your readme goes into!