wilfred / mobicodi

mobicode

A braindump of ideas: what would a mobile-first programming language look like?

These notes are CC-BY, any code will be GPL-v3.

Inspirations

• Type-based refinement
• Smalltalk

Other projects

Coding on smartphones:

• vimtouch
• Task-based apps, such as Llama and Tasker showcase the sort of functionality a smartphone language might target

Coding on larger touchscreens:

• Lisping (see the videos)
• swift playgrounds

Structured editing:

• Paredit (see The Animated Guide to Paredit)
• Lispy
• Unison (see About Unison)

UIs that promote fiddling:

• Browser consoles, especially Firefox's persistent script editor
• Emacs (modifying settings is just setting variables)
• Squeak's 'halos' allow a level of UI fiddling that even beats a web browser
• Hyperdev has a good stripped-down UI

Arguably minecraft is in this same category.