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As a pico8 user myself, I love the the tweetcarts:

https://twitter.com/hashtag/tweetcart?src=hashtag_click

Some amazing stuff.

A similar idea for JS canvas 'art' - https://www.dwitter.net/

A thread from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8337805

I designed and built a language (and interpreter) for something just like this many years ago. You'd tweet a program at it and it would render and tweet back the output.

https://github.com/mattbasta/graphicsbc

It was originally written in Python but ported to JavaScript for performance later on (though the bot was never ported)

For anyone else wondering https://twitter.com/pythontap was created in 2014, apparently for the same purpose, but there was no follow through.

As an impromptu meeting point, I suggest https://twitter.com/hashtag/pythontap

You know, I used Wolfram Mathematia for many years in college and even a little beyond, and I just learned today that the language is called Wolfram and the enviroment is Mathmatica.

Huh.

That’s a relatively recent change. When I first learned MMA around 1995, it was just Mathematica. It was still just Mathematica 10 years later. Then in the last decade they decided to give the language a name independent of Mathematica: I assume with the rollout of their other services/tools beyond the desktop client that use the same language.

Cool. I haven't followed the language in the last 5 years or so, so that makes me feel better.

It could have just been “pick a computable algorithm that our framework’s UI can render”.

Until I don’t see a meaningful program, which answers to a few use cases of a user, I wouldn’t take that serious.

Edit: And the abuse of a framework is also something misleading, it is like saying “make an OS in a tweet” and then tweeting: “git clone linux.git && make all && kexec kernel”

This comment doesn't feel useful. Do you only want to see bytes I can pop in the bootsector?

This comment feels even less useful.

Maybe you should define what a program is, which is something over an OS, below a plug-in to a framework and interfaces with a user in order to provide a value or interface.

Edit: If my comment is unuseful, how useful is a non standalone program which represents a graph of random values for no purpose at all?

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