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Alex Nisnevich
Personal blog · alex.nisnevich.com/blog · on HN as alnisprogramminggames
Alex Nisnevich writes AlexNisnevich.blog, a personal blog at alex.nisnevich.com about programming and games. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Alex Nisnevich's ECMachine project as an example of a Lisp-machine-style runtime in the browser, and as a Scheme-like web interpreter alongside other browser Lisps.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /ecmachine/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-08-15
What Hacker News says?
Hey, (one of the) developers here. It's really exciting to see that there's still interest in this little game Greg and I made all those years ago! I wrote up a postmortem on Untrusted back in 2014 that may be of interest if you'd like to learn more about how the game was created: http://alex.nisnevich.com/blog/2014/10/17/some_words_on_untr... I'm happy to answer questions and help anyone's who's stuck and needs a h…
Comment linking /blog/2014/10/17/some_words_on_untrusted.html
on “Untrusted – a user JavaScript adventure game”Submitted Show HN: Untrusted, a JavaScript adventure game you play by modifying its source as a story · 555 points
HN discussionThis is the "lisp machine" equivalent: http://alex.nisnevich.com/ecmachine/
Comment linking /ecmachine/
on “Smalltalk runtime in the browser”Submitted Show HN: Creating Land-Use Maps with an HP 7475A Plotter as a story · 50 points
HN discussionI dunno, I think programming is pretty futuristic. We've got live coding, futuristic platforms, fast dynamic languages, etc... Of course, the most futuristic platform is right under people's noses, the browser. It does things that old Lisp programmers imagined, like live coding, even 3D games, with sound, and even Kinect-like motion control. Live coding: http://www.mrdoob.com/projects/htmleditor/ WebRTC: http://cbat…
Comment linking /ecmachine/
on “Why Isn’t Programming Futuristic?”Submitted The development process of Wordbots (2016–2023) as a story · 11 points
HN discussionGoogling turned up several on just the first page of results: http://www.biwascheme.org/ http://sisc-scheme.org/sisc-online.php http://lisperator.net/slip/ http://alex.nisnevich.com/ecmachine/ But the parent is really the right answer -- ClojureScript is actually targeted at meeting modern web development challenges and has a thriving ecosystem of powerful tools for the same.
Comment linking /ecmachine/
on “Lisp: A Language for Internet Scripting and Programming (1998) [pdf]”Submitted Show HN: Face Tracking with OpenCV and a USB Missile Launcher as a story · 7 points
HN discussionMain developer of Untrusted here! I'm thrilled that people are still excited about this little game Greg and I made, 10 years later :-) If you're interested in the development process behind Untrusted, I wrote a bit about it back in 2014: https://alex.nisnevich.com/blog/2014/10/17/some_words_on_unt... And if you liked Untrusted, you might like my latest game, Wordbots. It's a very different take on the "players can…
Comment linking /blog/2014/10/17/some_words_on_untrusted.html
on “Untrusted – a meta-JavaScript adventure game”Submitted Playing Around with Ruby Hashes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you're ok with using JavaScript as a first programming language, ROT.js ( http://ondras.github.io/rot.js/manual/ ) is a neat library for making roguelikes. It's not a framework so much as a set of utilities for simplifying tasks like rendering the display, generating maps, etc. Some examples of small games made with it are http://ondras.github.io/star-wars/ and http://ondras.zarovi.cz/games/trw/ . I'm currently w…
Comment linking /untrusted/
on “Ask HN: Best Programming Language For a Text-Graphics Game”