i mean tbh something like fortran, cobol, or ada would probably work well for typing on a phone since almost everything is just represented by an english word
A few years ago, I came across a language that made heavy use of all the standard symbols found on a normal US keyboard WITHOUT looking like line noise.
I thought it would be worth trying it for this purpose. Being an idiot, I didn't bookmark it.
if you can find it lmk, i’m aware of some esolangs that do only textual symbols but the problem is then you *really* wanna avoid symbols and that gets weird
I couldn't find it. I also asked on a programming language discord and the closest suggestion was a stack-based language that used non-ascii symbols. Which, if that's the choice, you might as well do APL, but both get you further from usefulness on a phone.
typing K on a phone is nice, and it's easy to compile so getting it on a phone is easy. i wrote a decent amount of K on a jailbroken iphone when i was in nevada
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it’s a real toss up but i do think && and || are bad except convention. but convention is big. i wish we got keyboards with wedge and vel symbols
i want a coherent heuristic, like symbols are good when they map to math or have no preexisting understanding
i like how rust does methods on primitives…
"The Complete Syntax of Lua"
https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#8
I thought it would be worth trying it for this purpose. Being an idiot, I didn't bookmark it.
Which, I guess, makes this comment pointless. 🤷
i’m talking about something that is easy to type on a phone keyboard which only puts a-z on the first layer since natural language has few symbols
So something like:
\...\\...\.../
was if...elseif...else...endif
And there were no block delimiters {} freeing those symbols for other purposes.
On my keyboard, all those symbols are just a long-press.
white space sensitivity helps…
https://codeberg.org/growler/k