mxbi / better-whitespace

World's best progamming language

better-whitespace

Now, Whitespace is a pretty good language. One of the best, you might say. But it's not for everyone.

Some people have ethical objections to the use of tabs in their code - and even if that's an incorrect opinion, I respect your right to have it. So we put our best engineers onto the task, and three years later, we came up with better-whitespace, a language that uses only spaces and newlines.

Features

• ✔️ Turing complete
• ✔️ Deletes itself if you try to use tabs in your code since you clearly can't be trusted
• ✔️ Interpreted
• ✔️ Code secure against screen-watching attacks
• ✔️ Built in syntax highlighting
• ✔️ Enterprise-ready
• ✔️ Doesn't install 100MB of electron

Usage

./bws [better-whitespace-code.bws]

If you're not cool enough to write better-whitespace code by hand, you can use the converter from python:

./bws convert.bws [python_code.py] [better-whitespace-code.bws]

Example: Hello world

See also hello_world.bws

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This whole thing is a joke. It's just python source converted into binary using spaces and newlines.

better-whitespace's Issues

Editor plugins

I would be much more productive with syntax highlighting, bold and italicized code.

Printing code doesn't work

Whenever I print out my code for demonstration it's just blank

Needs JS compilation

It's already a well known fact that whitespace is a front end language. For this to actually be useful in enterprise, we need JS compilation since most browsers don't yet support web-WS.