Preparation and editing 😁

Thankyou yarrowification

Haha no it’s not. You can download/ install them here: mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/editors/index.html. Or use an online editor: bqn.funmaker.moe/ where you can click on them or use \ to insert them :)

@@davidzwitser Okay, I understand that there are tools to make it possible, but the fact remains: why?! Why would you design a language to look like hieroglyphics? Why make someone learn that in order to just understand wth is going on? What's wrong with the self-explanatory alphanumerics that we have all known since first grade? Who is this supposed to be good for?! Code golfers? Masochists? The pharaoh? 80s coders with only 64k for their program? People with a broken mouse that can't scroll the screen? Coders whose attention spans have been destroyed by TikTok? Black hats and IP hoarders trying to obfuscate their code deliberately? Who?! Please tell me why!!

@@davidhand9721 Haha, I understand your confusion. It does seem confusing at first. Actually the latest episode of the array cast podcast talks about this a lot! I recommend that if you want to understand : www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode71-primitives (also listenable on other platforms). As for my own feelings about it; having symbols to represent the most common and powerful algorithms we use in programming, and making a language which makes those very composable is super powerful! Because the algorithms have their own graphic, which often is a visual representation for the algorithm, you can keep them in your head and play around with them much more easily. A big idea of languages like this is "notation as a tool of thought": dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358896.358899. You can think of these languages as executable extended mathematical notation. I myself notice that I can express complex ideas super quickly and expressively in BQN and then run it!! In the podcast they explain all of this way better. And any new script from another language seem super strange and foreign at first, but once you start to learn to read it, that fades away :).

@@davidzwitser I don't doubt any of that, but "any new script from another language seems super strange" has degrees. I learned BASIC as a young lad and C++ as a teen, and I've never looked at modern languages like java, typescript, python, or rust before I learned them and had no clue what was going on the way I do looking at BQN. There's another array language floating around that gives you the option to spell out the symbols as keywords, and that sounds like a decent compromise - though I suppose it hogs the namespace. I did learn a sort of visual "language" that a game used to program robots, and I was glad for the symbols then - because all the documentation and instructions were in Japanese, and I don't know 15 words of it. There was zero chance I was going to type out the keywords, but I got pretty good at arranging the symbols to get the robots to win fights. So I can kind of relate to what you're saying, a little bit. Honestly, I don't have a use case for any of this. I don't even _really_ know what array programming is. I use filter, map, and reduce all the time, but I can't really picture forcing a whole application into that, if that's even related. I'm not mocking it, it's just highly conducive to humor, and that's all I've got for it. If it suits your needs, that's great. Carry on.

Aah amazing! What does it do when you have a selection? Flip the selection, move the selection or deselect and then the normal behaviour?

@@davidzwitser I believe it’s all relative to where your cursor is (called the “point”) and doesn’t involve the selection. For some of these commands (I don’t remember if swap does this) the selection stretches or shrinks according to the change of the text as a side effect. I’ve never needed this.

Hey Jasmijn, lief dat je reageert 😁. Het wordt een live coding tool, dus live programmeren en visuals genereren als een soort performance!

Thank you! Yea there sadly aren't a lot of videos with these languages now, especially for bigger applications like you said. I hope my videos will inspire more people to start making them :). And I understand your point with the scribbles. In this case that is probably because I my examples ware "unique object heavy" and the games themselves aren't that complicated thus there is not much "pure logic" to describe which you would normally use the symbols for (because they're amazing for that). It's also the way I chose to structure it which makes it more verbose. But I was for example also working on a particle system, and there you'd see a lot mores symbols because it is more pure logic and less unique things that need to be ordered and able to communicate with each other. :)

Awesome to hear!

Glad to hear it! :)

Awesome! That was the goal 😁. I also have longer videos where I have a more realistic pace and explain things a bit more. I also fall into pitfalls and crawl out which might be helpful to see 😁

It is actually a love language ❤

Good feedback :). I calculate the shape center once at the start and then only use it as the origin point to to rotate around. But your idea would mean that I don't need the origin point anymore and the player would actually draw in the center (because now that I think about it, its probably centred on its first point).

Haha, I’ll do it!

Thanks! That's great to hear :). And good one, I'll make an examples pack!

olib.amb-service.net/component/state-circuit-snippets Here is the snippet pack! :)

Aah, evalOPs is a good one! Thanks for the other suggestion aswel. The reason I didn't make it type Str is because then connecting with dropping one onto the other doesn't work anymore. @Unveil suggested to use a messageBox, which would also make the possibility to not overwrite the old connection. For now I don't think that benefit outweighs the problem though; namely it conflicts with my design goal of keeping it as minimal and native to TouchDesigner as possible. But I am still testing with that.

Have you considered uploading it to the olib as well? Would be a great addition to the utility tools there!

@@FunctionStore Good one! I'm going to look into that

@@FunctionStore It is on there :) olib.amb-service.net/component/state-circuits

@@davidzwitser lovely cheers! ☺️

Ooh hey Simo! I didn't know it was you 😁. Thanks for the feedback and compliments! I didn't know ui.messageBox and not even the TDF library, cool! I'll try out your suggestion 😁, it might indeed streamline the connecting of multiple State or Condition COMPs to one. And the infos are written! :)