metadesk

https://github.com/dion-systems/metadesk seems to be the repo for their prototype. It seems like it's vaguely similar to SGML but with small but significant differences: instead of <a>blah blah</a> you say a: "blah blah", the node labels can be user data instead of just structure, attribute values are full subtrees instead of just strings, and attributes syntactically precede the node, so you say @foo(bar) baz instead of <baz foo="bar"/>.

Off topic, but thank you for the link. There are some very good talks there. I'll give a brief summary of 3 I picked to watch. https://media.handmade-seattle.com/roc-lang/ [1], https://media.handmade-seattle.com/metadesk/ [2], https://media.handmade-seattle.com/practical-data-oriented-d... [3] 1. roc-lang by Richard Feldman. A high level pure functional language with low level language performance in runtime and compile time. Looks like the holy grail, but it seems like it'll be a few years to see if it lives up to that. 2. github.com/dion-systems/metadesk . A DSL/meta-data format that is a superset of json for that is more readable and does not encode data structure like json. 3. Some good tips on designing your data structures for efficient memory usage. I won't call it "Data Oriented Design" based on the things in the talk. The sudden