in:verse

in:verse is an esoteric programming language and live-coding development environment. The language uses a stack based paradigm (inspired by Forth) and compiles to GLSL, or more specifically, a fragment shader on a plane. The language does not have a pre-determined vocabulary — rather, this is up to you.

A very rough and incomplete guide lives here. This will soon be updated with more details, and a few tutorials will follow too. A gallery of work created with in:verse lives here.

todos

• add functionality for:
  • publish to gallery
  • publish to twitter
  • forking
  • redo front-end / un-sphagetti the code
  • supporting different languages / scripts
  • additional stack manipulation functions
  • additional GLSL functions (dot, normal etc)
  • higher level functions (voronoi, tiling etc)
  • images / videos / camera feed as textures
• think about:
  • uploading text to extract wordtables
  • persisting user contributions to wordtables
  • persisting user contributions to stacks
  • collaborative live-coding

inspiration

• Chef - an esoteric language by David Morgan-Mar
• Shakespeare - an esoteric language by Karl Hasselström and Jon Åslund
• Shaderforth - A shader language inspired by Forth, by Cody Brocious
• Forth Haiku - Forth to GLSL, by Brad Nelson
• Hydra - livecoding networked visuals in the browser, by Olivia Jack
• esotoric.codes - a blog/website dedicated to esolangs, created by Daniel Temkin