Wow that webpage is painful: a single super wide column with giant meme images that take up more than a screen. And it's so important to define the Atari 2600 that they give it room on the...
Wow that webpage is painful: a single super wide column with giant meme images that take up more than a screen. And it's so important to define the Atari 2600 that they give it room on the homepage. Meanwhile examples of the actual language are buried two clicks deep.
Something can't be an improvement or innovative without being different. On the other hand, if you are curious and of good will and make an effort to understand what we are saying, you will find a lot to enjoy and use. You must be willing to have your thinking changed by Meta.
Ya... I have a very different understanding of "human-friendly" than the author.
I like the concept, but this is surprisingly one of the harder simple languages I have ever read the source of. Some good ideas in there, but some choices that are rough....
I like the concept, but this is surprisingly one of the harder simple languages I have ever read the source of. Some good ideas in there, but some choices that are rough.
I wanted to share this because I found it incredibly strange and interesting. I actually found it while looking into something I hadn't seen in forever, a defunct open source operating system...
I wanted to share this because I found it incredibly strange and interesting. I actually found it while looking into something I hadn't seen in forever, a defunct open source operating system called Syllable Desktop which was based on the earlier, also-defunct AtheOS. It looks like development has spun up again, for some reason. But the person behind it also is making this rather unusual programming language.
Meta is still in early stages and probably isn't terribly useful to most people, but it's built upon some very interesting opinions. One of the things they did to jump-start interest was to target the Atari 8-bit computer systems as well as the 2600, and apperantly many of the people working on it are from those communities. But the thing I find much more interesting is that it considers itself to be a successor to Rebol, in which it is written. And Rebol itself is kind of crazy.
Wow that webpage is painful: a single super wide column with giant meme images that take up more than a screen. And it's so important to define the Atari 2600 that they give it room on the homepage. Meanwhile examples of the actual language are buried two clicks deep.
Ya... I have a very different understanding of "human-friendly" than the author.
I like the concept, but this is surprisingly one of the harder simple languages I have ever read the source of. Some good ideas in there, but some choices that are rough.
https://language.metaproject.frl/examples/
I wanted to share this because I found it incredibly strange and interesting. I actually found it while looking into something I hadn't seen in forever, a defunct open source operating system called Syllable Desktop which was based on the earlier, also-defunct AtheOS. It looks like development has spun up again, for some reason. But the person behind it also is making this rather unusual programming language.
Meta is still in early stages and probably isn't terribly useful to most people, but it's built upon some very interesting opinions. One of the things they did to jump-start interest was to target the Atari 8-bit computer systems as well as the 2600, and apperantly many of the people working on it are from those communities. But the thing I find much more interesting is that it considers itself to be a successor to Rebol, in which it is written. And Rebol itself is kind of crazy.
Sounds very interesting, but I don't recommend they call it that!
To be fair, they started this project with this name a few years before Facebook decided to rebrand.