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...

[astra_underscore@wetdry.world]

@Bubu I wish I had thought of that myself. I can only imagine the horror in the face of the next poor sod who has to maintain the project when he realizes that there are Smalltalk VMs hiding like booby traps all throughout the stack of what's supposedly is a Python and JS stack

I'm saving this idea. It's a sophisticated idea for a more civilized age...

[bubu@chaos.social]

@astra_underscore We had a lot of smalltalk at university, I actually really like the language and it's concepts. But I don't think that sentiment is shared by too many people .

[astra_underscore@wetdry.world]

@Bubu I really like ST too, but I think you could kill some devs by having them use it x)

[bubu@chaos.social]

@astra_underscore We had Dan Ingalls visiting our university/our professor at some point and he gave a presentation about the history of smalltalk. The presentation was obviously prepared and presented in Squeak Smalltalk.

It's been a while, but good memories.

[chrst@lethallava.land]

@astra_underscore@wetdry.world Too many cursed things to easily pick one.
Well done!

[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...