Hello Hacker News, I wanted to show something I've been working on. It's an end-user tool for publishing progressive web apps with no skills, which I call <https://Hyperhello.com> -- My project is vanilla HTML5 with no libraries and is all hand-written. There is a full LPEG parser inside which I use to allow the user to directly edit elements as a kind of simplified alternative to both JSON and HTML. The editing environment is loosely based on classic Mac (text editing plus marching ants around draggable, double clickable elements), but I've also put some work into making the interface phone and tablet friendly. And I even distribute a Mac app. It's free to use with no email address, in fact you don't even need to accept cookies -- enjoy!
It intersects no-code and low-code, and it started as an outgrowth of my discomfort with the way "simplified" programming is presented. I've been coding for a long time, since the days of BASIC and Hypercard, then C, C++, Java, etc; and so on, and looking at "simplified" products in the space always strikes me that they must have been designed by engineers trying to create a "remedial" thing. For example, Google just published a toolkit for putting syntax together as colored puzzle pieces. I suppose that could help supplement an education, but it would not be used to build anything. So that's what motivates me to try to do better than.
It intersects no-code and low-code, and it started as an outgrowth of my discomfort with the way "simplified" programming is presented. I've been coding for a long time, since the days of BASIC and Hypercard, then C, C++, Java, etc; and so on, and looking at "simplified" products in the space always strikes me that they must have been designed by engineers trying to create a "remedial" thing. For example, Google just published a toolkit for putting syntax together as colored puzzle pieces. I suppose that could help supplement an education, but it would not be used to build anything. So that's what motivates me to try to do better than.