> The goal of wax is to be a "common subset" of most major imperative programming languages. By lacking the unique fancy features in each of these languages and

> The goal of wax is to be a "common subset" of most major imperative programming languages. By lacking the unique fancy features in each of these languages and being as boring as possible, wax transpiles to all of them seamlessly I love the concept. I was recently studying a very small language called "subscript", with a similar idea they called "common syntax". > Subscript supports common syntax (shared by JavaScript,C, C++, Java, C#, PHP, Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, Perl etc.) https://github.com/dy/subscript https://github.com/dy/subscript --- Lingdong Huang, the author of Wax language, is a genuine artist of software. His projects are a feast. https://lingdong.works/ https://lingdong.works/ https://github.com/LingDong- https://github.com/LingDong- A programming language in Classical Chinese. First person shooter controlled by facial expressions. Procedurally generated flowers, fish drawings, imaginary creatures, landscape paintings, calligraphy. In my mind, he's up there in the Olympian heights with Fabrice Bellard, Justine Tunney, etc., in terms of technical mastery and innovative thinking. --- Here's a screenshot from a project called Image Sequencer, to programmatically sequence crowd-sourced images into gifs. https://lingdong.works/media/imgseq.png https://lingdong.works/media/imgseq.png Or this project called chinese-radical-vis, visualizations & animations of Chinese ideograms and radicals. > Each Chinese character is described as a combination of components. These components can be other characters or radicals, as well as building blocks, which defines the simplest shapes that make up every component. Combination can be applied recursively to describe ever more complex glyphs. https://chinese-radical-vis.glitch.me/ https://chinese-radical-vis.glitch.me/ I love this kind of interdisciplinary synthesis, with a visual and conceptual beauty.