SUsurprisetalk·Mar 19, 2025
The main implementation can be found here:
• https://github.com/tekknolagi/scrapscript
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tekknolagi / scrapscript
scrapscript
A functional, content-addressable programming language.
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A functional, content-addressable programming language.
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What Hacker News says
5 sourcesNow that I'm back at a computer:
* https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/scrapscript/
* https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/scrapscript-baseline/
* https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/scrapscript-tricks/
* https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/type-inference/
* https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/row-poly/
and the repo for the main implementation: https://github.com/tekknolagi/scrapscript
In Into CPS, Never to ReturnScrapscript: A functional, content-addressable programming language
193 points · Open discussionYeah, I'm not a huge fan of Python, but Max and Chris are world-class in that domain, so that's what we're doing for now.
Max has already started working on a meta scrapscript compiler: https://github.com/tekknolagi/scrapscript/pull/100
One thing I think we all agree on is that the implementations should be simple enough to easily port themselves to other languages. For example, one could probably port the existing scrapscript.py to Rust or Javascript using GPT in a single weekend.
You can see echoes of what I'm talking about in my tiny JS POC: https://github.com/tekknolagi/scrapscript/blob/trunk/scrapsc...
Some languages like Rust and Go put a lot of weight on the "official" implementation. I think scrapscript can be more like Lisp/Json where the spec guides parallel implementations. There are obvious downsides to this in general, but I
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think that content-addressability makes some of those problems moot.