Meta, a Human-Friendly Programming Language (language.metaproject.frl)

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From the site:

We have entered a world in which we need to do more with less. If you, like us, have frowned at the difficulty and inefficiency of creating software, and wondered if there is a better way, Meta is for you. It is a descendant of the acclaimed REBOL and Logo computer languages. Logo was designed in academia to teach programming in a simple yet powerful way. It is widely used in education and influenced many newer systems and languages. REBOL extended this concept to professional programming. It was invented by Carl Sassenrath, the chief software designer of the famous Amiga computer, the first consumer multimedia system. Meta takes the next step by combining this design with the virtues of the C programming language, which has been the standard for software interoperability and performance for half a century.

Seems to be primarily inspired by REBOL but designed to be faster [1].
Can compile to various 8-bit Atari machines and αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε (which means it can run on almost anything) [2].
Has an official Bluesky account, which AFAIK is the main social media presence.

meta-lang-examples (GitHub)

Try online ("console")

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[-] Norodix@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

I find that very hard to read.

[-] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

What I am not seeing is how it is much different than other languages. But hey, they had me at Atari!

[-] hardkorebob@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

https://programming.dev/comment/9902560

[-] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago

It's not so bad in a proper editor. These are very long lines and wrapping makes it worse than it is.

[-] hardkorebob@programming.dev -3 points 6 months ago

Complexity Bias. I had it too. Withers away with time.

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