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totemandtokentoday at 4:32 AM0 repliesview on HN

I haven't been working on it as of late, mostly because i'm a bit deflated from software in general, but I started working on a programming language I called Grasp.

If lisp is a list processing language, grasp is a graph programming language.

The idea was that most other data structures can be represented with a graph ( adjacency matrices are matrices, a tree is a type of directed acyclic graph, a list is a graph where each node connects to at most two nodes, etc) and so if you designed a programming language where the language is itself a graph, much like how lisp is itself a list, you could get other esoteric programming languages like APL, forth, lisp, and so on as DSLs of Grasp. Also any program you write would be its own CFG.

I started it but honestly its mostly a hot mess of vibe-coded garbage. But I may get back on it and try to clean it up.