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There's no explanation of how to use it, or even a code snippet. And the documentation is down. So not very useful I'm afraid :(

by rjh29 2y ago

bjackman 2y ago
I've always thought that tech websites often start with the wrong thing, with installation instructions front & centre like this one. If I'm coming to the website looking for that info I'll be happy to dig around a little bit to find it. If I'm coming to the website as a curious observer that information is not useful, it's wasting space that could be used demonstrating _why_ I'd want to install it.
- noufalibrahim 2y ago
  Same. Installed it. Couldn't find a small thing I could play around with. Clicked on the docs link and got an error. Very disappointing.
Eduard 2y ago
Additionally: no sample video (that's what this project is about, right?). And using terms only an ingroup can understand ("what's DrRacket again?")
mkl 2y ago
The documentation was hosted on another site, and at least one version of it has moved to https://docs.racket-lang.org/video/index.html https://docs.racket-lang.org/video/index.html. Sadly it says almost nothing - I think this is v0.0 and can't find a way to change that. The more recent documentation source code is at https://github.com/videolang/video/tree/master/video/scribblings https://github.com/videolang/video/tree/master/video/scribbl... and there are examples at https://github.com/videolang/video/tree/master/video/examples https://github.com/videolang/video/tree/master/video/example... (without any explanation, and they don't seem to do much). Unsearchable name, Scheme-like syntax, no accessible documentation, no compelling examples ... not much chance of success. Still, the idea of a "language for making movies" is interesting.
rafaelferreira 2y ago
There are some conference slides linked from project website: https://lang.video/pub/icfp2017/slides.pdf https://lang.video/pub/icfp2017/slides.pdf
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There's no explanation of how to use it, or even a code snippet. And the documentation is down. So not very useful I'm afraid :(

by rjh29 2y ago

There's no explanation of how to use it, or even a code snippet. And the documentation is down. So not very useful I'm afraid :(

bjackman 2y ago

I've always thought that tech websites often start with the wrong thing, with installation instructions front & centre like this one. If I'm coming to the website looking for that info I'll be happy to dig around a little bit to find it. If I'm coming to the website as a curious observer that information is not useful, it's wasting space that could be used demonstrating _why_ I'd want to install it.

noufalibrahim 2y ago
Same. Installed it. Couldn't find a small thing I could play around with. Clicked on the docs link and got an error. Very disappointing.

Eduard 2y ago

Additionally: no sample video (that's what this project is about, right?). And using terms only an ingroup can understand ("what's DrRacket again?")

mkl 2y ago

The documentation was hosted on another site, and at least one version of it has moved to https://docs.racket-lang.org/video/index.html https://docs.racket-lang.org/video/index.html. Sadly it says almost nothing - I think this is v0.0 and can't find a way to change that. The more recent documentation source code is at https://github.com/videolang/video/tree/master/video/scribblings https://github.com/videolang/video/tree/master/video/scribbl... and there are examples at https://github.com/videolang/video/tree/master/video/examples https://github.com/videolang/video/tree/master/video/example... (without any explanation, and they don't seem to do much). Unsearchable name, Scheme-like syntax, no accessible documentation, no compelling examples ... not much chance of success. Still, the idea of a "language for making movies" is interesting.

rafaelferreira 2y ago

There are some conference slides linked from project website: https://lang.video/pub/icfp2017/slides.pdf https://lang.video/pub/icfp2017/slides.pdf

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