Nathaniel Sabanski gnat

Programming Language Design

Many "languages" can get away without one, however, if your language has one of:

AS3 requires you be an expert in it.
- No longer accessible to people without a programming focus (artists).
  - Previously possible projects become too difficult in a reasonable timeframe.
  - I teach Flash to designers [...] the threshold of entry as well as the intimidation factor became too high for design students. What they want to do is make something functional and beautiful without needing to spend weeks learning the basics. AS2 made that possible. AS3, to a huge degree, took it away.
  - I'm a designer. [...] I've spent incomprehensible amounts of time learning and re-learning ActionScript. When AS3 was released I took one look at it and threw in the towel. Since then my life has been much better.
> Surely as memory/processor constraints dwindle, programming should be becoming LESS verbose, not more. Write less, do more, quicker. Hide the complexities of common tasks in simple short terms, not have to write a hundred lines t

Sublime in 2023 only has "Save on Build" not "Build on Save" built in.. use: https://github.com/alexnj/SublimeOnSaveBuild

⭐ Works for many different project types: game, website, app.
⭐ Main files are up 1 level: lets us have supporting files excluded from Caddy, Godot, etc with zero extra config!
⭐ Avoids industry jargon.

The intention is to be simple and universal; but feel free to use ideas you like, leave ideas you dislike.

Legend

	<html>
	<head>
	<script src="https://gnat.github.io/css-scope-inline/script.js"></script>
	<script src="https://gnat.github.io/surreal/surreal.js"></script>
	</head>
	<body>
	<style>
	* { box-sizing: border-box; }
	html, body { width: 100%; height: 100%; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; }
	body { font-family: system-ui, sans-serif; perspective: 1500px; background: linear-gradient(#666, #222); }

	#!/usr/bin/env -S bash -c "podman run -p 8080:8080 -it --rm \$(podman build --progress plain -f \$0 . 2>&1 \| tee /dev/stderr \| tail -n1)"

	# syntax = docker/dockerfile:1.4.0

	FROM node:20

	WORKDIR /root

	RUN npm install sqlite3

	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Inline real time stylus demo</title>
	<script>
	function stylus_to_css(string){
	var cursor=0

	// Remove excess indentation (dedent).
	var indent=''
	while (cursor < string.length) {