I had to design a simple general purpose language for university, so I tried creating "ZoomerScript" with Jetbrains MPS

prof@infosec.pub to Programmer Humor@programming.dev – 507 points –

Insert <it's not much but it's honest work> meme. It only supports ints and bools, some logic and simple arithmetics and it compiles to Java but damn was it hard to get that far.

Can you guess what everything does?

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class Scratch {
  // Start of file

  public static void main(args: string[]) {
    int number1 = 2;
    number 1 = 10;
    int number2 = 13;
    boolean fo_sure = true;
  
    if (fo_sure) {
      number1 = number1 + 5 - 10 * 2 / 3;
    }
  
    System.out.println(number1);
  
    boolean canYouSeeMee = false;
    System.out.println(canYouSeeMe);
    if (false) {
      canYouSeeMe = false;
    } else {
      canYouSeeMe = true;
    }
    System.out.println(canYouSeeMe);
  } 
}

What’d I win?

I find it interesting and unnerving that I understood the code, but not the youthspeak.

Well done, here's your price: 🏅

You may redeem it for a star on a GitHub repo of your choice.

It all gets put into the main method though in this version 😄

canYouSeeMe = !canYouSeeMe;

There are even more optimization possibilities, but I wanted to stay as close to the original as possible.

Yeah, it can be optimized down to a single constant print statement.