Speedie - Fun is the main goal

Beautiful, Modern, Fast, Expressive, Non-Infantilising

• Creator: @gamblevore
• Contact: theo@jeebox.org
• Forum: t.me/speedie_dev (telegram)
• Released: New Years Eve 2022 (31/12/2022)
• Platforms: MacOSX Intel • Apple Silicon (ARM) • Linux (Ubuntu) • MS Windows (via WSL)
• Sponsor ❤️: If you love my vision, Please Sponsor Speedie. Donate however much you feel happy giving. Or possibly... just hire me? ❤️

General Features

• Modern object-oriented language, slightly more expressive than Python.
• Runs faster than idiomatic C++
• Cross-platform. Create shell tools and GUI apps
• Message-passing-interface lets your multiple-processes talk.
• Has an awesome IDE, “Perry”.
• Stick with one language, when your needs change:
  • Fast: When you are doing heavy-duty data-processing
  • Expressive: When making tools with few lines of code
  • Type-safe & nil-safe: Allows writing large complex programs
  • Cross platform GUI and libs.
• Works natively with Jeebox... Learn how to use Jeebox!
• Not controlled by big-tech.

Speedie has been written as a passion project with a large amount of hacker mentality. And we are proud of this. Just love it or leave it.

If you'd like to support the ongoing development of Speedie, consider sponsoring through GitHub.

Speedie right now, compiles to C++. I am writing a VM for Speedie, so it won't NEED C++, but being able to is a great property to have, so that property will remain.

Read More

• Language Guide
• Speedie-isms
• XML Comparison
• Message (Jeebox)
• Strings
• Error Handling
• Perry (IDE)
• Safety in Speedie
• Speedie Is Fast

Power Features

• Has an awesome nil-checker and type-safety system! Write safe code while having an easy time of doing it!
• Doesn't infantilise you like Javascript or Java. Allows you to mess around with pointers if you need... (but try to avoid pointers anyhow).
• Integrates with C easily, so you can call C-library functions easily, if you need to, with no overhead.
• Speedie is designed as a fast language. Read More

Remaining Challenges

That said, there are challenges to overcome, that will probably mean a lot of people who are already interested, would not use Speedie:

• Adding a good debugger, VM and executable-format!

Unfortunately I am one person who has created a very large piece of work. Things will take much longer than we would have liked.

Goals

I have a lot of long-term goals... Overall, I want to make programming a whole lot more fun. Here goes for a partial-list of goals!

• "stepping backwards-in-time, through code" to see WHERE a problem originated from, would reduce a lot of the pain in debugging. I know how to do this nicely.
• I want to embed Speedie within a game-engine, that can be used for anything, kind of like Roblox. But designed for fast real-time-action much more than Roblox.
• I actually want to design a game (someday) where you can do programming without writing code, in fact the shape of the levels and monsters or items within the levels would implicitly write code for you. So basically the whole experience would become very metaphorical and dream-like. You would write code through your adventures.
• I'd like to create a space for the original goals of Jeebox. This includes perfect translation of human language, and making the computer sensibly work with human commands. This needs a community, theres no way I can do this myself. Using Jeebox for AI is a goal, but this will have to be community driven. It's quite possible that "It won't be fun to do first" and "there are more fun directions to follow first" such as more visual-programming route.
• Perhaps being adopted by a specific community? For example, perhaps some company or group WANTS to have a programming language designed for it's needs specifically?
• I'm still interested in MMI (Mind Machine Interfacing) using quantum-entropy, so perhaps Speedie could be modified to be good at it. But I want to steer clear of "financial predictions" and stick to the "lets use it for play" (like using randomness for games) kind of thing, so it might have to come after making a good gaming system? Using MMI for financial-predictions is kind of a cursed-genre.
• Perhaps visualisation of data-structures within a game-engine could be cool? As a way to explore your data and debug things.

On a personal level, outside of Speedie, I'd love to work on anything helping to restore nature or make technology less harmful. Such as helping retune wifi or EM-emissions of tech to not drain our health.

Installation

1. Run "git clone https://github.com/gamblevore/speedie.git" then move the folder to /usr/local/speedie/ if it wasn't cloned there already.
2. cd /usr/local/speedie
3. Execute sudo Terminal/makelinux.sh ... OR sudo Terminal/makeosx.sh

My IDE Perry, will need libsdl2-dev to compile. LibSDL2 has install instructions.