What's difficult with programming isn't the language itself, it's everything else: understanding concepts, algorithms, programming patterns, the science.
It feels a bit like trying to reinvent the language of mathematics. It'd be really inefficient writing math in plain English.
I'm happy to answer any questions that might pop up...
Some things of note:
Built-in P2P Mesh Networking
Listen on "/ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/8080". Connect to "/ip4/192.168.1.5/tcp/8080". Sync counter on "game-room".
That's all you need for libp2p, QUIC transport, mDNS discovery, GossipSub pub/sub
Full conflict-free replicated data types: - GCounter, PNCounter — distributed counters - ORSet with configurable AddWins/RemoveWins bias - RGA, YATA — sequence CRDTs for collaborative text editing - Vector clocks, dot contexts, delta CRDTs
Wrap any CRDT in Distributed<T> and get: - Automatic journaling to disk (CRC32 checksums, auto-compaction at 1000 entries) - Automatic GossipSub replication to all peers - Unified flow: Local mutation → Journal → Network. Remote update → RAM → Journal. - Survives restarts, offline nodes, network partitions.
Go-Style Concurrency - TaskHandle<T> — spawnable async tasks with abort - Pipe<T> — bounded channels (sender/receiver split) - check_preemption() — cooperative yielding every 10ms for fairness
There's more... but those are my personal favorite features.
I've put a good bit of work into this, so I hope you all can appreciate and maybe find some uses for it here on my favorite place on the interwebs!
As a bit of background on myself and my goals/targets with this.
I started my career as an embedded software developer writing uCos-III for an RTOS working on medical devices for Cardinal Health where I primarily worked on enteral feeding pumps. From there, I spent a couple years in fintech, before trying my hand at my first startup where I co-founded a company in the quick commerce space. (Think similar to Doordash Dashmarts). When that fell apart I took a job at Hasura where I wrote GraphQL to SQL transpilers and other neat things for about 18 months. I've worked across a few different domains and the motivation behind writing this language is that I am preparing to teach my 13 year old brother how to code and wanted something I could get low level with him on, without losing him altogether.
This is a dual-purpose language and has a dual-AST, and the things I'm currently working on... having switched gears towards spending a couple days on the Logical side of things are adding an actual prover to the Logical AST. I'm getting ready to add a derivation tree struct and incorporate the ability to use a solver to do things like Modus Ponens, Universal Instantiation, etc. I also want to upgrade the engine to be able to reason about numbers and recursion similar to Lean with inductive types.
This is an early access product, it is free for students, educators, non-profits, orgs with < 25 people, and individuals.
It would make my day if I could get some rigorous HN style discussions, and even the critiques!! The feedback and discussions are invaluable and will help shape the direction of this effort.
What a lovely surprise doing my daily HN check before bed and seeing this post. :)
EDIT: I will read and respond to comments when I get up in the morning, feel free to ask questions! Or make suggestions.