[HN Gopher] I wrote a screenplay for a programming language intr...
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I wrote a screenplay for a programming language introduction
Author : OuterVale
Score : 61 points
Date : 2025-02-06 06:23 UTC (16 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (jan.miksovsky.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (jan.miksovsky.com)
| albert_e wrote:
| The link should probably be to the specific blogpost...
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| https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2025/01-22-motion-comic-orig...
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| Currently it links to the parent website
| albert_e wrote:
| Feedback as someone who didn't know anything about Origami ...
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| I jumped directly into the motion comic and was quickly immersed
| into the terminal, syntax and command examples ... without first
| being told WHAT is Origami in the first place and why were are
| doing the various steps being shown in the terminal, leading up
| to what goal/result.
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| Had to back track, go to the Origami website and read this
| subtitle to make sense of it ...
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| > Complements HTML, CSS, and JavaScript so you can build complete
| websites
| benrutter wrote:
| I absolutely love this- on the topic of the motion comic itself,
| it's a really nice accessible intro to the language.
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| Would love to see some examples of things built with origami, the
| comic explained the language concepts really nicely, but my
| imagination doesn't quite stretch to knowing how types of things
| the language makes easy. Seeing some examples in practice would
| really help!
| OuterVale wrote:
| There is a collection of examples over on the Origami website.
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| https://weborigami.org/language/examples
| benrutter wrote:
| Thanks, that's a really great selection of examples too!
| Definitely showcases what my brain couldn't quite figure out
| before - the "about us" page, and the "google drive photo
| blog" are pretty obvious examples where Origami makes
| building static really approachable!
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| Rewriting my personal blog in origami is definitely going on
| my "bored on a rainy day" project list!
| turnsout wrote:
| Origami is a really elegant utility/language with a lot of
| interesting ideas. It still feels like a tool for a more
| technical audience--maybe it would be good for AI agent
| orchestration? The stated audience of non-developers who know
| HTML and CSS and want a code-oriented SSG [0] is simply non-
| existent. I know Jan is working on marketing, so I strongly
| encourage him to define a more realistic user profile/ICP which
| is based on talking to real people. [0] "Origami
| is designed for you: someone who wants to make a site for
| yourself or a small organization, who can HTML and CSS, who's not
| a professional developer -- or is, but wants to build sites more
| quickly." -<https://weborigami.org>
| woodrowbarlow wrote:
| after scrolling through the comic, my takeaway is origami seems
| really cool! it seems philosophically similar to flask:
| innovative ergonomics with flexible deployment and un-opinionated
| structure.
| NoToP wrote:
| Now make it a musical.
| randomcatuser wrote:
| wow this is really cool! I started getting the hang of things "/"
| means the object itself, "/path" is how you can refer to stuff
| inside objects.
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| Starting to think.. what else could we use it for?
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