Devlog 1

I’ve been wanting to make a coding language for some time now. I want to make a language that can be easily learned. It’s not going to be that powerful, but I want it to basically allow anyone to repeat math functions.

I have finished the basic outline of the UI. It was heavily influenced by the USACO IDE (as you can see in the screenshot below). It gives a basic outline to the features that I want to build. First, on the left half of the screen is the area where you can code. It is basically a big textarea input. For the input area, this is where people will put in inputs for the code. Same thing here, it is a textarea input. Finally, there is also an output area. Right now, there is just a placeholder, but that will change later.

For the navbar at the top, there are 4 buttons. The first is a link to the documentation. I plan to build another website for the documentation, and I want it to be really easy to understand. Next is a “Save to browser” button that will save the code to localstorage. Next to that button is a “Save to file” button, which I plan to make the website download a .txt file to the computer. The “Load file” basically will allow users to upload code to the website.

That’s really it for now, I’ll come back when I want to explain how I plan how the language will work!