To borrow from the show "Halt and Catch Fire": The programming language isn't the thing, it's the thing that gets you to the thing. In my talks with the resear

To borrow from the show "Halt and Catch Fire": The programming language isn't the thing, it's the thing that gets you to the thing. In my talks with the researchers at Dynamicland, it's become clear the programming language is, well, dynamic. It's in flux and not what the main research is being done on. At a high level, the focus at Dynamicland is on what a "humane dynamic medium" is and can be, which is slightly orthogonal to programming language design. At a low level, the language used right now is a modified version of Lua, though I have seen GLSL and JavaScript used on some of the programs. The thing is, once you have enough programs, one tends to spend more time using the physical space to experiment rather than spending time in a text editor.