[HN Gopher] Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative ...
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Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)
Author : tartoran
Score : 52 points
Date : 2020-11-19 18:47 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| markmiro wrote:
| This looks like a text-first coding environment
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| I like the idea of building websites and writing blog posts by
| starting with text and slowly taking different parts of it and
| adding dynamic functionality
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| Maybe I want to embed the current date somewhere
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| Maybe I want to embed a chart
|
| It's not exactly a new idea, but doing things with LISP might
| provide some useful invariants
|
| Hoping I understand this correctly
| Naac wrote:
| When I first read the description I thought it was going to be
| something like processing[0] but in lisp. Turns out this is
| something completely different.
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| [0] https://processing.org/
| kossTKR wrote:
| There is no explanation of what this is on the page. The one
| sentence description is meaningless to newcomers.
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| What is creative coding?
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| What does it have to do with creative writing?
|
| You need a better explanation / demo.
| owyn wrote:
| _Vodka is a Lisp, but instead of parentheses, it uses boxes.
| The yellow boxes around the words you typed before? Those are
| the equivalent of parentheses in Lisp._
|
| It's a lisp environment! But I agree there should probably be a
| demo or some kind of interactive example.
| thih9 wrote:
| > What is creative coding?
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| The project's readme links to a wikipedia page that defines the
| term and provides examples.
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| "Creative coding is a type of computer programming in which the
| goal is to create something expressive instead of something
| functional."
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_coding
| ericlewis wrote:
| That definition irks me a bit because technically the
| creativity they have done is functional and it just makes me
| think they're talking about something even stranger.
| dang wrote:
| Ok, we'll change the URL above, from
| https://github.com/eeeeaaii/vodka to the intro page.
| dkarl wrote:
| There's a Getting Started page linked in the README that shows
| what the software does. Not sure it makes much of a case for it
| being useful.
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| https://github.com/eeeeaaii/vodka/blob/main/GETTINGSTARTED.m...
| kleer001 wrote:
| Uhhh, what problem does this solve?
| marcodiego wrote:
| Title makes me think of the Ballmer peak: https://xkcd.com/323/
| ballmerspeak wrote:
| It had to have started there right? But I think this could also
| be valuable before hitting the peak.
|
| But then again, unraveling a drunkenly produced chunk of LISP
| doesn't exactly sound fun either.
| tsherr wrote:
| I'm not sure what the point is? Am I coding? Writing a novel?
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| I can get the first letter of a word? Why do I want to, as a
| creative writer?
| badcircle wrote:
| This looks really interesting! What sort of outputs do you
| generally use it for?
| suyash wrote:
| demo link / video?
| tartoran wrote:
| This will probably give you some idea. I'm going to set it up
| give it a go.
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| https://github.com/eeeeaaii/vodka/blob/main/GETTINGSTARTED.m...
| dash2 wrote:
| That tells people the things you can do, but not why you
| might want to do them. I think most people, especially
| writers, won't know what a creative coding environment is or
| why it might be right for them.
| tartoran wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_coding
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| Some things are made to experiment with, simply to play
| with. They may lead to different projects. I actually tried
| to get this going but I'm stuck after cloning the repo,
| there are some folders missing and the node server crashes.
| If anyone is able to get this running I'd appreciate if
| they told me how. I'm missing the /sounds folder
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