Functional programming sits on a difficulty range: spreadsheets on the low-end (debatable but I'll say it!), and on the high-end, well, I think that everything else FP sits there with minor exceptions.
I'm developing a language for numbers that is conceptually closer to spreadsheet formulae than imperative programming or hard-FP, therefore I think hopeful for this kind of task in the long-run. It's "only for numbers", so really think spreadsheet-formula type complexity, but I won't stop anybody from going wild with interpretation.
To see things you pair it with some other language like JS, but code for these "apps" can be simple/declarative and pre-rolled. I have a JS visualization library that will probably be graphical one day.
I'm working on the project website [1].
Following spreadsheet fashion some examples are a little bore, but there is a raycaster rendering to a bar chart and heart shapes, bouncing balls and projectiles, to lighten the mood for early developer-adopters or contributors.
For some more project background: by encapsulating numbers in a language (and not a mad one and one that we can safely and actually run), it can facilitate transparency for numbers. Transparency and education go hand-in-hand. I'm talking about numerical literacy primarily, but I think that too goes hand-in-hand with.. programming on computers.
Functional programming sits on a difficulty range: spreadsheets on the low-end (debatable but I'll say it!), and on the high-end, well, I think that everything else FP sits there with minor exceptions.
I'm developing a language for numbers that is conceptually closer to spreadsheet formulae than imperative programming or hard-FP, therefore I think hopeful for this kind of task in the long-run. It's "only for numbers", so really think spreadsheet-formula type complexity, but I won't stop anybody from going wild with interpretation.
To see things you pair it with some other language like JS, but code for these "apps" can be simple/declarative and pre-rolled. I have a JS visualization library that will probably be graphical one day.
I'm working on the project website [1]. Following spreadsheet fashion some examples are a little bore, but there is a raycaster rendering to a bar chart and heart shapes, bouncing balls and projectiles, to lighten the mood for early developer-adopters or contributors.
For some more project background: by encapsulating numbers in a language (and not a mad one and one that we can safely and actually run), it can facilitate transparency for numbers. Transparency and education go hand-in-hand. I'm talking about numerical literacy primarily, but I think that too goes hand-in-hand with.. programming on computers.
[1] https://calculang-quarto-site-messing.pages.dev/examples