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by daenz 1965 days ago
I do! I am currently in the very early stages of creating a VR-based language. I believe that if we can represent programs more intuitively to our spatial, visual, and tactile senses, we can unlock more programming potential in more people.
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KineticLensman 1965 days ago
> spatial, visual, and tactile senses

What about our olfactory senses, for code smells?

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DonHopkins 1964 days ago
iSmell!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17476460

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24853659

>Losing your sense of smell and taste is a symptom of COVID-19!

>Too bad the iSmell never took off and became ubiquitous, or it could be used to screen for COVID-19 symptoms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISmell

https://www.wired.com/1999/11/digiscent/

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jmiskovic 1964 days ago
You are designing language from scratch? Is it too early to show screenshot or a sketch?

Often I get the urge to make spatial development environment, but I always envision it as lisp with 3D rendering/manipulation.

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daenz 1964 days ago
The language from scratch, yeah. I have experience with UE4, so I'm going to be using that. Too early for screenshots, I'm still in the planning phase.

Basically I'm spending my time on a whiteboard thinking up simple programs (fibonacci sequence, graph traversal, etc), then drawing them out how I imagine they could be represented in a 3d environment. From that, I am distilling ideas of how to represent data types and algorithms in a way that doesn't look like spaghetti.

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