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I think there's more value to be had in building better learning resources around programming languages than continually trying to simplify them at the expense of power. Besides that, if someone is already looking for a simple scripting language, Lua already exists. I personally prefer its syntax as well.
There should be something like this except functional/immutable
Reminds me of the old educational graphics programming language Logo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_(programming_language)
I think the best teaching language is one that can have a ball bouncing across the screen with as little ceremony as possible.
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There are so many programming languages - but imho not a real easy one for beginners.
Python? Python is really easy to learn and has reached VB levels of snowball network effects.
I think there's a fundamental gulf between "easy language" and one that you'd want to do work in long term, and the history of Python is a great case study in that. If there aren't any "easy, real languages", well, if you want to fix that you'd better carefully study the reasons why all the easy languages have stopped being easy on their way to becoming real languages or you'll just repeat the mistakes of the past.
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There are so many programming languages - but imho not a real easy one for beginners.
Python? Python is really easy to learn and has reached VB levels of snowball network effects.
The original Javascript was intended as an easy language that runs in the browser. And so it was in 1996. In reality, it seems, a successful language that runs in the browser had no way around becoming a "full-blown" language, as opposed to "easy".
Thing is, sooner or later, at the very least you find yourself wanting something like lodash or jQuery[1]. Ironically, the latter also came into existence to make programming across different browsers simpler back in the bad old days (of not that long ago), and did an admirable job of that.
Unfortunately jQuery, and similar libraries of the mid-noughties era, provided the breach in the dam that's seen us swamped in a torrent of new, sometimes baffling, and on occasion arguably unnecessary platforms, libraries, and tools, which have made the process of developing for the client a much more intimidating process for those starting out.
[1] Although these days you'd be surprised by how much of what jQuery offered is now built into the browser APIs and works consistently across them.
The original Javascript was intended as an easy language that runs in the browser. And so it was in 1996. In reality, it seems, a successful language that runs in the browser had no way around becoming a "full-blown" language, as opposed to "easy".
JavaScript still can be easy if you ignore the rest of the ecosystem. Thing is, sooner or later, at the very least you find yourself wanting something like lodash or jQuery[1]. Ironically, the latter also came into existence to make programming across different browsers simpler back in the bad old days (of not that long ago), and did an admirable job of that. Unfortunately jQuery, and similar libraries of the mid-nou…
I think there's more value to be had in building better learning resources around programming languages than continually trying to simplify them at the expense of power. Besides that, if someone is already looking for a simple scripting language, Lua already exists. I personally prefer its syntax as well.
Lua might have little features and have a small footprint, but it's not simple to understand
Nice! It would be more fitting for the style of this language if 'end' were used instead of '.' imho