11 comments

  • joomy 1 hour ago
    Hi all, Kip's developer here! I was going to wait until we had finished the playground and landing page before posting about the project more, but here's the browser-based playground we have so far (thanks to Alperen Keles) for anyone who wants to play with the language: https://alpaylan.github.io/kip/

    (The work on JavaScript transpilation just started today and currently doesn't work, but running the language should mostly work, though it probably has bugs, which I'd love to hear about in the repo's issues!)

    • sedatk 52 minutes ago
      Fantastic work, an area I’ve always wanted to explore.
    • nhatcher 48 minutes ago
      Sorry! It was too beautiful not to share it. But I'm sure you can do a show HN once you think is ready.
      • joomy 47 minutes ago
        That's okay, thanks for sharing!
  • celaleddin 1 hour ago
    Got especially excited, since I also experimented on a similar idea a few years ago:

    https://github.com/celaleddin/sembolik-fikir

    Will check this out further in the following days. Thanks for sharing!

    • joomy 58 minutes ago
      That's pretty cool! From what I can tell, it does a morphological guess based on the suffix. If you didn't have the apostrophe, it'd have issues with ambiguity (say "aşı", does it mean vaccine or does it mean "aş" in accusative case?) but the apostrophe solves that problem too.

      My solution for this problem in Kip was to go all the way with the morphological analysis using TRmorph (https://github.com/coltekin/TRmorph) for it, and then resolve the ambiguities in type checking / elaboration. (Therefore Kip almost never needs apostrophes.) Whether it was worth it, I don't know, but it was a fun problem to solve. :)

  • ugurs 1 hour ago
    Clicking the link with a prejudice in my mind, I found the definitions cleverly clean and easy to understand. I would be pleased to see a German version of it, just to have a good laugh.
  • hexfran 1 hour ago
    Not relevant to the language itself but to the grammar: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=73
  • SuperNinKenDo 6 minutes ago
    I love this kind of stuff - non-English programming languages, particularly when they utilise language features in unexpected ways like this.

    My Turkish is pretty rusty - and was never any good anyway, but really cool stuff.

  • lolc 2 hours ago
    Haha I can read some casual Turkish and this made my day!

    Funny how the case system of Turkish is both strong and standardized enough for this to work well. I don't know any other language where flexible argument order would work so well.

  • chuckadams 20 minutes ago
    Reminds me a bit of Lingua::Romana::Perligata.
  • hahahahhaah 1 hour ago
    A language an LLM can choke on!
  • readthenotes1 2 hours ago
  • rafohy12 2 hours ago
    the developers don't even live in turkey. one is in maryland, the other in new york. and developing turkish programming language. ayy lmao
    • alpaylan 1 hour ago
      The Maryland one (that would be me, although I haven’t really done anything except the WASM bindings, this is really all Joomy’s work, kudos to him) is vacationing in Izmir right now, why would that even be important though?
    • BigTTYGothGF 9 minutes ago
      I don't even live in England but still write in English, heck of a thing if you think about it.
    • pinkmuffinere 1 hour ago
      Both developers are Turkish