Hello everyone and happy new year! I am the author of the Mech language, which I first presented at Live 2019: http://docs.mech-lang.org/#/live2019.mec

Today I'm posting a follow-up blog post that covers Mech's progress over the last 2 years. Once the pandemic hit I kind of went silent, but my students and I still managed to get a lot of work done. I hope you'll give it a read! http://mech-lang.org/post/2022-01-01-happy-new-year/

Future of Coding • Episode 54

Ella Hoeppner • Vlojure

I was immediately interested in Vlojure because of the visual style on display — source code represented as nested circles; an earthy brown instead of the usual dark/light theme. But as the introduction video progressed, Ella showed off a scattering of little ideas that each seemed strikingly clever and obvious in hindsight. You'd drag one of the circle "forms" to the bottom right to evaluate it, or to the bottom left to delete it. The sides of the screen are flanked by "formbars" that hold, well, whatever you want. You can reconfigure these formbars to your exact liking. Everything is manipulated with drag. The interface exudes a sense that it was designed with wholly different goals and tastes than what we usually see in visual programming projects — perfect subject matter for our show.

• https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/054

Kind of a jab at the zealousness of go's community but also an interesting intro to real macro possibilities in golang using the C preprocessor: https://deathbykeystroke.com/articles/20220106-real-macros-in-go.html