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I often think about the concept of no-code, and how you're basically just moving complicated and very-much coded prefabs around that someone else made, this is a form of no-code, there isn't any way to actually input any code, really, but the computer has a single instruction(OISC) which is to replace the LHS of a rule with its RHS.

It allows for all sorts of funky GUI projects to be created without any code.

* This fantastic calculator program is an original creation of @capital!

@Xillin (and Ze)
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★ STMAN ★ 🏳️‍🌈
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These kind of things are conceptually interesting and a curiosity or source of inspiration, for those like me who work on fundamental research in drastic complexity reduction of digital systems' hardware and software.
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Devine Lu Linvega
Devine Lu Linvega
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@stman I think we share this sensibility toward simple-ish runtimes, this rewriting system is probably the barest of computing bedrock that I certainly have come across, I was able to share the code for a little interpreter in a zine in just a few lines.
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Xillin (and Ze)
Xillin (and Ze)
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@stman I'll definitely back it up and say rewriting is about as simple as it gets. Programs that you could run with a mancala board. A programming system you can implement (with a front end language) in about ~50 lines of Lua and a hour of your day.

Also cc @wryl cause I got a lot of my ideas from her. She's been diving deep into rewriting trying to liberate it from the Maude system.


recipe-book

A small multiset rewriting engine written in Lua.
Codeberg.org
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lhp
lhp
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this paradigm (?) of visual programming fascinates me deeply because it is both very alien and understandable.

My instinctive model of visual programming has always been creating pipelines of existing modules on a 2D plane (which sees decent success in some "creative" software), which IMO is both more approachable and more limiting and boring.

(btw I did create the parallel rewriting thing we talked about a few days ago, but the results weren't really interesting)

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Kevin Karhan :verified:
Kevin Karhan :verified:
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TBH, "NoCode" is just yet another buzzword that's being swung around by TechBros aka. VC scammers because at best it's a simple UI-Builder like that of Microsoft Access 2000 and at worst it's a shitty bespoke SaaS with an absurd syntax and less skill transferability than Scratch!

#NoCode #Buzzwords #BuzzwordDrivenDevelopment #BuzzwordBingo #TechBros #VC #UI #Enshittification #SkillTransfer

#ui #techbros #vc #enshittification #nocode #buzzwords #buzzworddrivendevelopment #buzzwordbingo #skilltransfer
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(wryl)
(wryl)
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Thank you so much for your work on this, both of you. It's so exciting to see this come together in such a short time. To think this didn't exist a week ago.

This is the future.

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djm
djm
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how I long to be working on things like this instead of making visual diagrams to explain code
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Devine Lu Linvega
Devine Lu Linvega
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@djm Maybe in the future, there won't be a difference between the diagram and the code, or at least you'll be able to run the diagrams directly.
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