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JaDoggon Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language

Home page was actually built by my wife. https://github.com/tashvit.

Other CSS are probably just luck ;)

JaDoggon Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language

Yes very good point, I started this by writing a spec. However I already started a tutorial section in github discussions: https://github.com/orgs/YakshaLang/discussions/categories/tu.... I should add a link to it in main page.

JaDoggon Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language

Yes I originally wanted to add support for OpenCL style C code too. Time will tell if I figure out how to implement it.

JaDoggon Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language

Logo is based on a Sri Lankan traditional mask for Fire Devil (Gini Yaka). https://uk.lakpura.com/pages/raksha-masks

JaDoggon Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language

yes it is in my local repo. but it is not done yet.

JaDoggon Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language

Thank you.

JaDoggon Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language

BTW glicol looks & sounds really good. I have always day dreamed how I would DJ but instead of using traditional tools, I'd be using a programming language to do it. I never had guts to do it in real life tho! :)

JaDoggon Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language

Thank you.

JaDoggon Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language

done. Thank you!

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/11vnm...

JaDoggon Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language

yes there are pointers. See some samples here: https://github.com/YakshaLang/Yaksha/blob/e72d7984a4c8d49e4d...

JaDoggon Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language

I had help with the landing page. However, rest is mostly me. But I'm using lot of third-party stuff also.

REPL I have been thinking for a while, I'm not sure how I would do it unless there is a way to run zig cc in browser.

Would be harder without having a backend at the moment as it needs to run a C compiler to generate the final executable. (Not an interpreter)

JaDoggon Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language

There are some samples. But yes this is a good idea.

JaDoggon Build full “product skills” and you'll probably be fine

Now imagine : NeuraLink plugged directly to ChatGPT (lot faster version) and you. You don't even need to type.

JaDoggon Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language

It is a rather large project. So here is some information about tech stack.

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Tech stack: Code is written in C++ for the compiler

carpntr - which acts as the builder is built using Yaksha itself. (I use a python script to bootstrap and carpntr to build carpntr as a second step)

hammer - cross compiler for C/C++ projects written in Yaksha (I'm building Linux version of Yaksha compiler on Windows box leveraging `zig c++`)

Yaksha comes with zig to use zig cc.

Runtime: this is written in C. (There are no .dlls involved, things get built statically, only subset will be built and linked)

Standard library: written in Yaksha.

YakshaIntelliJ - written in Java

Various scripts - Python.

JaDoggon Anki-fy your life

Shameless plug if you want flashcards in your terminal: https://github.com/JaDogg/sbx

JaDoggon Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market

Just use Show HN & Reddit.

JaDoggon Ask HN: Do you miss description lists (<dl>) in Markdown (GFM)?

I never knew about <dl> until I saw this post. So I never missed them.

What is the advantage of <dl> over bullet-lists?

JaDoggon Chinese tech giant Baidu releases its answer to ChatGPT

Interesting. I wonder if in future, people who use locales that are not supported by ChatGPTs/Ernies would be more disadvantaged. (They are probably already disadvantaged to some extent)

I hope LlaMa/Alpaca come to a level even these people can train it for their own language.

JaDoggon Introducing react.dev

Since I'm not a real frontend developer. I just use bootstrap + jquery. It works fine for personal projects.

JaDoggon Best D&D map makers for dungeons, cities and worlds

Yes! with enough generative AI capabilities (Star Trek) Holodeck can be achieved.

JaDoggon Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia

Thank you for adding the screenshots. Looks good.

JaDoggon Meta rediscovers the cubicle

Different people need different things: Open office, cubicle office, work from home, work from office, hybrid, etc.

There is no silver bullet.

JaDoggon Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain?

Sounds useful for game boy / retro gaming enthusiasts

JaDoggon While crypto bro scammed clients, reporters scammed readers

It is scams all the way down. At this point I'm convinced everything is a scam.

JaDoggon The 12-bit rainbow palette

Nice, I can extract some 4 colour palettes out of this for game dev.

JaDoggon Consider working on genomics

From what is said in the article and comments, this may be a good place to be if you are bootstrapping your own company.

JaDoggon Ask HN: Alternative ways to make money with coding and system skills?

What is a good way to get started?

JaDoggon Show HN: C Injection Compiler – Program your text files in C

Interesting. I did something similar few years ago. (https://github.com/JaDogg/ExpressGenGen)

JaDoggon Firefox 106 brings PDF annotations to browser

Sounds like this should be default

JaDoggon Pimp My BBC Micro

Very good project. duckyPad looks good as well.

guiltily look at few raspberry pi I have lying around