[HN Gopher] Lisperanto - Experimental in browser IDE
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       Lisperanto - Experimental in browser IDE
        
       Author : uprun
       Score  : 88 points
       Date   : 2022-04-12 08:29 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (uprun.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (uprun.github.io)
        
       | lgvld wrote:
       | Very nice! I was expecting a 300 MB app running in the browser
       | but... this is refreshingly minimalistic.
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       | One could use this when introducing someone to programming.
       | Exactly the kind of stuff I was looking for, as I try to teach a
       | few things about programming to my little cousin. But I find most
       | Scratch-like [1] applications are really cumbersome.
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       | [1] https://scratch.mit.edu/
        
         | lf-non wrote:
         | Curious why you think Scratch is cumbersome ? Is it primarily
         | the amount of js the scratch vm needs ?
         | 
         | I got (re-) introduced to scratch few months back while
         | collaborating with some people in the media lab (where scratch
         | originated) and have had fun tinkering with blocks creating
         | funny animations etc. in my free time.
        
           | lgvld wrote:
           | Just in term of user interface, actually. Something makes me
           | feel awkard, I don't know why... It looks like I am
           | manipulating colored potatoes, while I am expecting to
           | manipulate data, by writing pure functions... ;-)
           | 
           | But maybe children love the way Scrath looks?
        
             | abecedarius wrote:
             | You might enjoy http://www.toontalk.com/ for something more
             | like manipulating data. (I played with it years ago before
             | the web version was made.)
        
         | modernerd wrote:
         | https://www.maria.cloud/ might also be a cool thing to show
         | them.
        
           | lgvld wrote:
           | Oh thanks! Cool. Love the didactic approach.
        
       | JasonFruit wrote:
       | I'm having a hard time figuring out what this does by looking at
       | the main screen. Neither the menu nor the options are very
       | enlightening without context, and I don't see an obvious way to
       | get to any.
        
       | KSPAtlas wrote:
       | I was thinking of making a s-expression editor that would
       | structure a lisp program as a tree, but it was a native program.
        
       | uprun wrote:
       | intro video with functionality overview
       | https://youtu.be/QNyuMK8ZrHI
        
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