Velato

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Hi, I’m the creator of Velato, the programming language (which is at http://velato.net/ ). Velato multicodes with music, much like Piet does with images. The challenge is to write a piece that works musically and programmatically. I have some better example programs I’ll post when they’re released, by an actual composer (it sounds much better than my sample Hello World).

Meanwhile, there’s a variation of the language at http://velato.net/HandsFree/ where you can whistle code live into the browser, rather than using MIDI. It has a somewhat different lexicon and a very different feel.

part of me says "wow, cool"

another part says "oof, reads like shit, sounds like shit, i really hope the authors don't mind that they flushed their lives in a toilet to make this crap" (yes, rude, i know)

To me, the art is in making it sound good, not fizzbuzzing today's advent of code puzzle.

That's its possibility; a tool for multi-dimensional self expression.

But of course, debugging is always twice as hard as writing code and writing code that sounds good will probably require more than half of most people's cleverness.

It’s pretty awesome as steganography

I have shelves of sheet music and nobody would bat an eye at something like this buried in there

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