Snek

Snek is an experiment in building live-coding languages.

It's really more a research and learning project than a performance tool. Mostly the aim is to play around with how languages can be built, improved, made more interactive, and more user-friendly.

The aesthetic is heavily hydra influenced. Primarily because it seemed that the signal chaining style of it would fit well for a small DSL and the data types involved are few and simple enough that it would be easy to build a basic type checker as well.

• If you're after something for performing, or experimenting with these kinds of visuals then you're probably better off using hydra.
• If you want to use any of the ideas, concepts, features or pieces of code in the project then by all means do.
• If you're interested in language design and how live-coders use tools then please get in touch.

Language

The Language document should hopefully detail everything, though it's liable to be out of date as I hack on things.

The Builtins document lists all the built in functions, operators and buses.

The Todo document covers things that are half completed or not yet started.

Technical Details

Under the hood, snek is really just taking the input code and turning it into a GLSL fragment shader. There are pre-built functions for most of the transformations which are included in the shader if used.

Credits

Some bits of code pulled from hydra-synth. The Virgil parsing library is based on Canto34.

Contact

Drop me an email at guy@rumblesan.com

License

BSD License.