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I do! I am currently in the very early stages of creating a VR-based language. I believe that if we can represent programs more intuitively to our spatial, visu

by daenz 6y ago

I do! I am currently in the very early stages of creating a VR-based language. I believe that if we can represent programs more intuitively to our spatial, visual, and tactile senses, we can unlock more programming potential in more people.

hour_glass 6y ago
Awesome, what changes can VR bring to a coding environment? It would certainly be cool to fly around and observe a complicated network of code in action.
KineticLensman 6y ago
> spatial, visual, and tactile senses What about our olfactory senses, for code smells?
- DonHopkins 6y ago
  iSmell! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17476460 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17476460 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24853659 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24853659 >Losing your sense of smell and taste is a symptom of COVID-19! >Too bad the iSmell never took off and became ubiquitous, or it could be used to screen for COVID-19 symptoms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISmell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISmell https://www.wired.com/1999/11/digiscent/ https://www.wired.com/1999/11/digiscent/
jmiskovic 6y ago
You are designing language from scratch? Is it too early to show screenshot or a sketch? Often I get the urge to make spatial development environment, but I always envision it as lisp with 3D rendering/manipulation.
- daenz 6y ago
  The language from scratch, yeah. I have experience with UE4, so I'm going to be using that. Too early for screenshots, I'm still in the planning phase. Basically I'm spending my time on a whiteboard thinking up simple programs (fibonacci sequence, graph traversal, etc), then drawing them out how I imagine they could be represented in a 3d environment. From that, I am distilling ideas of how to represent data types and algorithms in a way that doesn't look like spaghetti.

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I do! I am currently in the very early stages of creating a VR-based language. I believe that if we can represent programs more intuitively to our spatial, visu

by daenz 6y ago

hour_glass 6y ago
Awesome, what changes can VR bring to a coding environment? It would certainly be cool to fly around and observe a complicated network of code in action.
KineticLensman 6y ago
> spatial, visual, and tactile senses What about our olfactory senses, for code smells?
- DonHopkins 6y ago
  iSmell! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17476460 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17476460 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24853659 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24853659 >Losing your sense of smell and taste is a symptom of COVID-19! >Too bad the iSmell never took off and became ubiquitous, or it could be used to screen for COVID-19 symptoms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISmell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISmell https://www.wired.com/1999/11/digiscent/ https://www.wired.com/1999/11/digiscent/
jmiskovic 6y ago
You are designing language from scratch? Is it too early to show screenshot or a sketch? Often I get the urge to make spatial development environment, but I always envision it as lisp with 3D rendering/manipulation.
- daenz 6y ago
  The language from scratch, yeah. I have experience with UE4, so I'm going to be using that. Too early for screenshots, I'm still in the planning phase. Basically I'm spending my time on a whiteboard thinking up simple programs (fibonacci sequence, graph traversal, etc), then drawing them out how I imagine they could be represented in a 3d environment. From that, I am distilling ideas of how to represent data types and algorithms in a way that doesn't look like spaghetti.