Nil interpreter
Languages and libraries
esoteric programming language interpreter
SHOW HN2013
115points
29comments
#194of 1,739 in 2013
Top 12%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
5 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 10 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score -0.12.
Idea: 5 for, 7 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against
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What people liked
Funny parody of X lines of JavaScript posts
From 4 comments
It was only a matter of time before someone came up with a parody for the X lines of JavaScript posts. Nicely done though.
joelennon on HNHahaha, well done. I originally expected some word-wrapped 10,000 char thing on a single line.
RankingMember on HNFinally! Someone had to do this.
venticco on HNI fully endorse this, these posts were getting a bit ridiculous.
basyt on HN
Objections
Whether it counts as JavaScript at all, since it never calls the JS interpreter
From 3 comments
I would debate whether or not this is actually Javascript. For something to be JS, surely it needs to actually call the JS interpreter when it's run. This doesn't. So it isn't.…
onion2k on HNThe title is ambiguous but it's arguable that no JavaScript at all is "less than one line of JavaScript".
afandian on HNFalse, there is no JS present at all. (should be an empty file)
gishse on HN
Requests
Add IntelliSense or JIT compilation
From 1 comment
I've considered doing JIT compilation to JavaScript and adding IntelliSense, but that'd require another 0 lines of code and I'm worried it might ruin the beautiful simplicty of it.
TazeTSchnitzel on HN
Questions
How to debug a failed Nil program
From 1 comment
it failed without throwing a NilPointer exception, how can we debug it?
singularity2001 on HN
Alternatives named
Hello World in 1 line of JavaScript post
From 1 comment
There was also a story yesterday titled "Hello World in 1 line of Javascript" (which I think is now dead).
probably_wrong on HN