EYG: A Programming Language Designed for Humans, Not Just Developers
EYG: A Programming Language for Humans
I built EYG to help technically minded people automate their lives without mastering complex deployment tools. Unlike professional languages like Gleam, EYG removes the friction of running code so makers can focus purely on describing their logic. It targets 'home cooked' software needs, from personal dashboards to simple automations, offering a statically typed experience that feels as accessible as Excel.
Sympathy for the machine only exists in developers; the average human response to integer overflows is simply 'WTF, that's not how numbers work'.
- Panzerschrek
I generally don't think it's a good idea to develop a language for non-developers. It was tried before multiple times and the end goal has not been achieved. Sooner or later one realizes, that professional developers are still necessary, even for languages initially designed for "normies". But such a language is typically not good enough for them, it lacks necessary abstractions, flexibility, performance or something else.
We have a lot of examples for this, like COBOL, SQL, Visual Basic.
- veqq
EYG's structure editor is amazing, not letting you create syntactically invalid code etc.
- saghm
> Sympathy for the machine only exists in developers. They will happily explain why integer overflows need to happen. The average human response to integer overflows is “WTF, that’s not how numbers work”. We have BigInt and 99% of the time the WTF response is the correct one.
Forget sympathy for the machine; the real reason we need programming languages that prevent issues because we should have sympathy for the poor humans who are incapable of reasoning about anything but the simplest code without hitting the limits of their hardware. I'd argue that for virtually all humans (whether developers or otherwise), the brain is like the world's worst runtime for code imaginable. The maximum memory is absurdly low (how many variables can you really remember at once?) and prone to corruption that makes C look like a heaven-sent solution to undefined behavior (how many parents of multiple children do you know who never accidentally call kids the wrong name? my average length between calling one of my cats by the name of the other is like, a day at most), and the speed is laughable (time for a single division operation is on the order of entire seconds).
The widest integers in the world will not stop us from writing buggy code, and I think we have bigger fish to fry than BigInts
- teo_zero
I thought "makers" all used Python. What's the friction that EYG is supposed to remove?
- invalidOrTaken
Interesting stuff. I do like the taxonomy of "computer work", where it's one part logic cognition, and one part ticky-tack details.