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Part III was discussed a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45275049

Esolangs are not designed to catch on. They’re designed to be extremely difficult to use in creative ways.

I once designed an esolang for my CS students to have fun with during the last week of the semester. A few of them used it in really, really creative ways and also went on to make their own languages for fun.

The one I created for class supports supports concurrency, regular expressions, HTTP requests, and file I/O. The challenging part is that every line executes concurrently in round-robin style (one command per line). There are only 8 commands and each line can only store a single string value.

https://austinhenley.com/blog/hofstadter.html

I had a lot of fun in DevDiv!

Your Terms of Use is a white page when I go to it.

I miss Atom.

Newgrounds, Flash games, and Mochi ads are how I got my career started. I miss how easy it was to get your game distributed all over.

I wrote a bit about it: https://austinhenley.com/blog/8lessons8games.html

It was a Microsoft Research project based on OCaml and adapted for .Net.

Discussion last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39401973

Also relevant, Making a RISC-V Operating System Using Rust (2019). I wonder what relevant Rust features have changes in the last 6 years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36320914

I had an NSF grant for a similar project in 2019. Ask the dev questions about their code and validate their answers using program analysis.

The initial idea was applied to classroom settings.

An Inquisitive Code Editor for Addressing Novice Programmers’ Misconceptions of Program Behavior https://austinhenley.com/pubs/Henley2021ICSE_Inquisitive.pdf

Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23164614

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34843306

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28255116

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28850861

Do you have a ranked list of items that pay off to spend a bit more versus doesn’t matter?

Microsoft had the Faster CPython team for several years, and then recently laid off some of the core devs and the team lead.

Anecdotal counter example: Maybe I’m just bad at writing about AI, but my AI-related blog posts rarely get traction on HN.

In contrast, my random side projects that aren’t about AI get discussed here more than 50% of the time.

I really enjoy these lists of interesting features from various languages. They pop up occasionally on HN but now I can’t find them (Hillel Wayne had multiple).

I want a meta list of all these interesting features across languages.

EDIT: I found one! “Micro features I’d like to see in more languages” https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/microfeatures-id-...

Having applied to YC this round with an email product, this is very interesting.

As a professor, I believe virtually all profs should have industry experience and occasionally go back for a year or two. (I’ve bounced back and forth!)

I wear mechanical watches and have a small (and growing) collection. It’s irrational, but I like them anyway :) I’d appreciate an art piece like this.

The author also wrote about his experience making a space shooter game for the E-Reader:

https://mattgreer.dev/blog/making-a-shooter-for-the-ereader/

This is what I need more of from the internet.

TinyBASIC is fun and beautifully simple. I wrote a 3-part tutorial for making a TinyBASIC-to-C compiler using Python a few years ago.

Let’s make a Teeny Tiny compiler https://austinhenley.com/blog/teenytinycompiler1.html

What I like about these projects is that you can make them as simple or as complicated as you want.

I agree 100%.

Here’s why I prefer making “useless” stuff: https://austinhenley.com/blog/makinguselessstuff.html

And my list of similar projects: https://austinhenley.com/blog/challengingprojects.html

I want to do a database and then something involving genetic algorithms next. If I have infinite time, another video game emulator too.

This is beautiful!!! Adding it to the end of the post right now.

Now if I can just use SIMD directly from Python without calling out to another language.

We are hiring.

Very nice find (pun intended). I added an update at the end with your solution and a link to this comment.

YouTuber or move to the mountains.

I think it is time * (votes+comments).

In practice, if it gets any real amount of votes or comments, you have to wait a year to repost. If it doesn't get any attention, it can be reposted quickly (though I think it should be a day later).