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thrance 6 hours ago

Whenever someone links to a new programming language, I would like the page to have a few snippets of code in that language, just so I can get a quick overview.

thomasdziedzic 6 hours ago

> I would like the page to have a few snippets of code in that language, just so I can get a quick overview.

The linked page on github https://thrax.elijahpotter.dev/ has some snippets that you can click on. The first one called tour.th has a very brief overview of the language.

gary_0 5 hours ago

That page doesn't work on mobile, the code is covered up by the menu.

seeknotfind 2 hours ago

Yeah, specifically http://learnxinyminutes.com/ style.

bsder 6 hours ago

I'm more interested in why someone created a new programming language.

That tells me way more than snippets ever will.

thomasdziedzic 6 hours ago

> I'm more interested in why someone created a new programming language.

The why in this case is "a little toy language ... to learn .. how dynamically-typed interpreted languages worked"

JadeNB 6 hours ago

> I'm more interested in why someone created a new programming language.

> That tells me way more than snippets ever will.

Fortunately, it is easy for a landing page to include both.

stevenbedrick 5 hours ago

Not to be confused with the Thrax toolkit for finite-state grammar engineering: https://www.openfst.org/twiki/bin/view/GRM/Thrax