week 34, year 2024 - programming languages of various types

24 August 2024

Updated: 23 December 2025

what i’m working on

i’ve been putting some hours into my image editing app and think i have something that technically works, at the moment it doesn’t look like much but proves that the visual programming language idea works:

i wrote a blog post explaining how the application works{rel=“nofollow ugc noopener”} which explains the concepts around everything all the way from shaders to the ui

what i found

this week was pretty busy but i managed to get some time to speak to some other devs and we got chatting about configuration languages

rcl

i bumped into Ruud{rel=“nofollow ugc noopener”} who works on a reasonable configuration language{rel=“nofollow ugc noopener”} which a language for defining configuration that outputs to more common formats like json

pkl

this chat also reminded my about another configuration language made by apple{rel=“nofollow ugc noopener”} which was released a while ago and is a language for config as code with support for validation