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by breck 1912 days ago
> I don't see the point in a javascript-based compiler

My CC is Javascript based (well it was initially, then TypeScript, now a lot of it is written in itself).

99% of the time I use the actual languages I make in it server side (nodejs), but I am able to develop the languages in my browser using https://jtree.treenotation.org/designer/. It's super easy and fun (at least for me, UX sucks for most people at the moment). There's something somewhat magical about being able to tweak a language from my iPhone and then send the new lang to someone via text. (Warning: Designer is still hard to use and a big refresh is overdue).
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iamwil 1912 days ago
Wait, what do you use treenotation for? What are the languages for? I think I'm just a little surprised someone's using treenotation other than to play with it.
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breck 1912 days ago
Oh yeah I use it everywhere. The ideas are live on prod on a number of sites.

My recent fun public focus now is to power Scroll, (https://scroll.publicdomaincompany.com/). "Scrolldown" now powers my blog (an example post: https://github.com/breck7/breckyunits.com/blob/main/insist-o...). I think from what I'm seeing so far Scrolldown may be one of the first Tree Lang breakouts. Simple but powerful from extensibility.

TreeBase is used extensively at a few moderately successful websites. I think Tree Notation (or 2D langs generally) will be used OOMs more in this domain. It integrates so incredibly seamlessly with Git.

At Our World in Data Tree Notation is used for the researchers to build interactive data visualizations (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn2aJA5ANUc&t=145s). That one uses it's own implementation called "GridLang" because I didn't want to depend on jtree, which is a bit too R&D for a site with that kind of traffic. The 2D lang/Tree Notation ideas are so simple that it's easy to roll your own code and you don't have to use "jtree". I view the "jtree" project in a way as just an experiment to confirm that yes, you can do anything/everything without any visible syntax characters. Space is all you need.

On the contracting side I'm helping a crypto group with a shockingly ambitious 2-D crypto.

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