Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

It's still pretty early, possibly buggy, and almost certain to get breaking changes without warning.

My original thought was to combine Lisp syntax and structural macros with C semantics and see how much extra abstraction that would provide, but variants of that idea have been tried before. They may have been compelling at a certain point in time, but I think a new systems programming language in 2026 should offer more, so it does.

Some features include: strong typing, protocols (similar to Clojure or Rust traits), non-nullable references, error values, bound error handlers (a bit like Common Lisp), optional lexical lifetimes, namespaces, and no mandatory runtime overhead relative to C.

It's self-hosted, which I've noticed several new systems programming languages announced recently are not.

The idea is that developers and scientists can meet each other in the terminal in a funny way at 3 am while working.

There is a place in the moon where you can "scream" against your last LLM session and everybody can see your scream from the space.

You can create your avatar, share your github if u want too.

It is full of continents (the "physics" continent, the "computer science" one, etc.) and in each continent there are cyberpunk cities. You can create corners and expand the city, and enter. A 3D supercyberpunk animation brings you in the corner and you can chat with people who enters in the corner (corner=chatrooms). Also voice chat works if u active it. In your terminal.

In the moon there is a place where you can see the stars and everything happening on the virtual pixelated sky, water a plant (if nobody put water it dies), with a soft low quality chill music. If someone is in a room with you, you can see him and you can chat, even vocal chat exists.

It is perfect to let it open in the second monitor while working so that you can watch the stars while dying of tasks to do, and sometimes have some conversation with someone who is in your same situation.

It works in Linux,MacOs and windows:) _____

https://github.com/SorBalda/vibeworld

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I started a 501c3 nonprofit last year to showcase / highlight relatively unknown but talented artists in other countries in Atlanta, Georgia and we finally completed a visa application to bring one of them to the US.

As an engineer it's been difficult but really fun learning to help promote visual arts, but AI helped speed up a ton of stuff I wouldn't have really know about (like setting up a kanboard to work alongside artists).