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Comment by rastapanda | Hacker News Reader

That website is awful.

Alright, what do you want me to fix then?

It requires a lot of effort to get information. The embedded auto-playing video reminds me of pre-Facebook social networking, requiring further effort turning it off (especially after scrolling down trying to figure out what's what) before a user can then move their cursor around the site to access the content they wants.

Thank you, I modified it a bit so that this shouldn't be an issue now.

Do you really need somebody to tell you that black-on-black text is maybe not such a good idea?

Any why the hell is there a music video?

Not the op, but some considerations:

The screenshot isn't readable, feels odd tacked on at the bottom, and if you click it, you don't get an enlarged version. This is a language, not an editor, right? That's what the title says. But where is the hello world? Where is the list of snippets to give you a feel for the language?

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try to work on it. Both the language and the editor are currently in development (it's just an alpha version) but as a user you need to use the editor due to technical reasons (syntaxless). Of course you could write your own editor and just use bp as a standalone compiler but that would mean you need to develop an editor that can produce the generic XML output. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do this so I'm working on a default IDE to make it more user-friendly.

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