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Show HN: Think Turing Complete, but you write the circuits in TypeScript (WIP)

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Took me ages of tapping around before I hit a page that obtusely says "NAND needs a desktop" and then another ten seconds before I realized that was telling me I'm blocked on mobile.

If you're going to block mobile devices, make it upfront and obvious because 80% of people who land on your site will probably be on one.

the "snappy quick-witted style" of this along with "think X but with Y" makes me think this is the type of prose that gets rated higher in post-training RL or something and yet annoys the heck out of actual readers

That's funny I genuinely could not think of another way to try an engage the people who play Turing Complete on Steam so I just gave this a whirl. In my head everyone on hn has played it but clearly not

Ah yeah I guess the map page is not gated thanks for pointing that out

What's with the title?

It's a Typescript-to-circuit converter/transpiler/compiler.

Why not just "Build a circuit in Typescript"?

I think “Turing Complete” here refers to a game about making circuits:

https://turingcomplete.game/

Thank you. That was lost on me, too.

Great game, too, with some truly surprising features (like Verilog export)

For those who may have taken a leak at the game in the past: The recent update from this summer was a ground up engine rewrite with all sorts of features like this.

I think the "Turing Complete" part is about the "It has a campaign its not just a ts-to-circuit compiler"

Yea exactly. I made the campaign using the open source libs to try to get people using it creatively/in a somewhat familiar setting. Appreciate you having taken a look

Good feedback. I tried a similar title on a previous post and got no traction so I tried to contextualise by relating it to Turing Complete. Didn't hit

Slop….

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