<story><title>Show HN: Cassette, a Personal Programming Language</title><url>https://cassette-lang.com</url><text>I made this simple language over the past year, and it&amp;#x27;s time for me to say it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;done&amp;quot; (for now) and focus on other projects.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve struggled to answer the question &amp;quot;what is this language for?&amp;quot; other than &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s just for me&amp;quot; — and that&amp;#x27;s probably good enough. But I also wanted to make something &amp;quot;complete&amp;quot; that others could use if they wanted to. Writing my own language was an incredibly rewarding experience, and I&amp;#x27;d recommend everyone trying it.&lt;p&gt;Let me know if you have any questions or feedback, and please share your own experience if you&amp;#x27;ve also made a language.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>What a great introduction: what it is, how it looks, why you might like it, what the design goals are, and how to write it - all while being short, to the point, and relatively buzzword free. I find a lot of new language offerings (which may be very good technically) fall short on how they make a first impression; other language creators should look at this as a template.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Cassette, a Personal Programming Language</title><url>https://cassette-lang.com</url><text>I made this simple language over the past year, and it&amp;#x27;s time for me to say it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;done&amp;quot; (for now) and focus on other projects.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve struggled to answer the question &amp;quot;what is this language for?&amp;quot; other than &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s just for me&amp;quot; — and that&amp;#x27;s probably good enough. But I also wanted to make something &amp;quot;complete&amp;quot; that others could use if they wanted to. Writing my own language was an incredibly rewarding experience, and I&amp;#x27;d recommend everyone trying it.&lt;p&gt;Let me know if you have any questions or feedback, and please share your own experience if you&amp;#x27;ve also made a language.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neontomo</author><text>Your work is in an interesting niche, but I found your home-cooked app philosophy post more fun to read about. It made me feel optimistic about the value of creative coding projects, thank you for writing it.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.robinsloan.com&amp;#x2F;notes&amp;#x2F;home-cooked-app&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.robinsloan.com&amp;#x2F;notes&amp;#x2F;home-cooked-app&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>