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by 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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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.