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janet-lang / janet

A dynamic language and bytecode vm
https://janet-lang.org
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Initial Tutorial/Getting Started #8

Closed bakpakin closed 5 years ago

bakpakin commented 6 years ago

Dst needs an on-ramp for new contributors and users getting started. A simple tutorial for setting up Dst, using the repl, writing programs, and using the core functions would help newcomers understand the language without looking at all of the source code.

gavlooth commented 6 years ago

I good tutorial needs some simple program to implement. Probably we have to be clear for the use cases of dst, and i think now that i can write a small program to facilitate that. The question is what would be that?

bakpakin commented 6 years ago

Dst is supposed to be general purpose, but a simple program could be perhaps a spellchecker or a minimax game ai, as with chess or checkers for something interesting.

The spellchecker is nice because it could require reading and parsing data from a file, as well as some not too complex logic and use of core data structures.

bakpakin commented 5 years ago

There is an initial introduction and better docs currently. Closing this out.