Kabas
Languages and libraries
beginner programming language
SHOW HN2018
138points
83comments
#298of 2,155 in 2018
Top 14%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
9 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score +0.34.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Brings back the simplicity of BASIC and QBasic
From 2 comments
Great! Brings back the simplicity of Basic and QBasic. How easy it was to draw, animate and create music.
z92 on HNI’m a huge fan of these sorts of simple programming languages. I consider the simplicity of Purebasic and TI-83/89 Basic to be one of the main reasons I was able to successfully…
KennyCason on HN
Objections
Python and other existing languages already serve beginners
From 2 comments
Python? Python is really easy to learn and has reached VB levels of snowball network effects.
thanatropism on HNI think there's more value to be had in building better learning resources around programming languages than continually trying to simplify them at the expense of power. Besides…
Kaveren on HN
Requests
Open source repository for contributions
From 2 comments
Really cool. Is there a project repository, and are you accepting contributions?
VictorSCushman on HNThe source is actually pretty readable, do you have a git repository anywhere so others can contribute?
abenedic on HN
Shareable online code editor like codepen
From 1 comment
Nice work! I would love it if we could get something like a codepen.io for this language, so we could share and debug code with people learning to program.
arayh on HN
Questions
Is the project open source?
From 1 comment
Very cool, both the graphics capabilities and the fact that it's Wasm! Is this project open source?
Micoloth on HN
Why build it?
From 1 comment
Impressive! But why?
v01d4lph4 on HN
Alternatives named
Python
From 1 comment
Python? Python is really easy to learn and has reached VB levels of snowball network effects.
thanatropism on HN
Lua
From 1 comment
I think there's more value to be had in building better learning resources around programming languages than continually trying to simplify them at the expense of power. Besides…
Kaveren on HN
Logo
From 1 comment
Reminds me of the old educational graphics programming language Logo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)
ranit on HN
TI-BASIC
From 1 comment
My first thought (before seeing this comment) was that it reminded me of my first programming language, the TI-BASIC that shipped with Texas Instruments graphic calculators in…
cribbles on HN