UPDATE: My supervisor approached me to ask if I knew a way to make their automatically generated PDF reports not look like ass...and well... I do happen to know of this little tool called...

[quantumsys@tech.lgbt]

@astra_underscore Typst It's like LaTeX but I personally find it more readable

Edit: Oh, wait, you wanted cursed things oops

[sigmasternchen@comfy.social]

@astra_underscore@wetdry.world I voted Forth, but honestly I'd probably go for a custom DSL. ^^ I recently heard a story about someone who built a custom setup for deployment automation that used git branches to determine which action to execute next.

[thermia@sk.girlthi.ng]

@astra_underscore@wetdry.world build all the business logic in transact SQL running on Microsoft SQL server (preferably an older edition)

[gjersey999@ice.ch3.st]

@astra_underscore@wetdry.world "oh, this PDF is laid out so elegantly! what program did you use?" LaTeX! "oh, these graphics are really eye-catching! what app did you use?" GIMP!

[0x4d6165@transfem.social]

@astra_underscore@wetdry.world fennel

[joe_von_saporski@bunt.social]

@astra_underscore
groff

[carto@mastodon.online]

@astra_underscore oh forth, absolutely. Nothing like byte compiled definitions loaded from blocks. Preferably on bare metal. Complex stuff in just a few kilobytes!

[stephanie@thetransagenda.gay]

@astra_underscore@wetdry.world 6502 assembly in a custom emulator that uses memory maps for additional I/O (though 64kiB of memory might be a bit tight for your application)

[astra_underscore@wetdry.world]

@Stephanie duckduckgo how do i javascript on 6502 🥴

[reia@linfan.moe]

@astra_underscore emacs lisp!!

[astra_underscore@wetdry.world]

@reia it would be even funnier if I could use elisp *outside* of emacs...

[fiore@brain.worm.pink]

@reia@linfan.moe @astra_underscore@wetdry.world too much ... too evil..

[asm@is.beeping.pet]

@astra_underscore entire codebase is emacs org mode

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@sigmasternchen @astra_underscore You could cross the streams of Forth, a custom DSL, *and* Perl, by going with a Forth-like custom DSL implemented in Raku, which used to be called Perl 6 (before it changed into a meta-language for writing DSLs). Re-implement a git client inside Raku for maximum lulz. No, wait, that already exists—

(dies)

[anarch157a@cyberpunk.lol]

@astra_underscore No one mentioned the obvious yet...

Sed...

[beckydog@hydaelyn.coerthansnowstorm.online]

@astra_underscore hand coded assembly.

[astra_underscore@wetdry.world]

@Beckydog nah I'm gonna code assembly using my feet. AT&T x86 assembly too mind you

[beckydog@hydaelyn.coerthansnowstorm.online]

@astra_underscore that? Is beautiful! Oh! Using a very specific, hardcoded devorak keyboard for feet

[ware@brain.worm.pink]

@astra_underscore Typst FTW, such a pain relief to make templates once and not have to struggle with LaTeX anymore for dumb shit

[astra_underscore@wetdry.world]

@ware the point of this is to make it as painful as possible for the next guy because I'm not being paid.