Hey HN,

I’ve been building A-Lang — a lightweight programming language aimed at being fast, simple to read, easy to embed, and great for small tools and game scripting. It’s inspired by Lua’s minimalism and Rust’s modern syntax style.

I’d love feedback from people who build languages or enjoy dev tools. What should I improve next?

Interesting! Your code sample is centre aligned on the website, which strikes me as odd. Should it be left aligned? The theme picker also has no effect for me.

(Safari, macOS 15)

This looks good. I'm currently enjoying nushell. I like the built in http server and appreciate the built in mysql functionality. For me though sqlite would be a better fit for a language like this, small and portable that it is.

Sometimes simplicity passes complexity into the user. One of the reasons I'm likely nushell is the built in functionality, for example, the ability to natively open CSV,JSON,XML,etc files.

Are there plans to add other functionality?