PDF: mwh.nz/pdf/mplr25

Live demo: mwh.nz/demos/mplr2025 (generate freestanding single-file Java, Haskell, JavaScript programs embedding a program as the same AST)

Implementation, and interpreters built on a shared parser embedded this way in Java, Haskell, JavaScript, and Grace: github.com/mwh/wg

Anecdotally, this is still a very live topic among the wrong Telegram groups and YouTube rabbit holes and they’re egging each other on to actually do it.

Last week: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

July: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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Mages of Mystralia has Noita-like programmable spells with an interesting hex layout for the runes. An example half-way down magesofmystralia.fandom.com/wiki/Spells and youtube.com/watch?v=XGsb...

One variant of the rewriting system has "gravity" to instigate that movement for selected terms. Another uses the Manhattan-closest suitable spawn point for a term to the producing reaction. They make for interesting behaviour but it's not clear it's useful, even relative to the rest of the system.

I explore versions of semantic layout quite a lot, but at least in two dimensions the interference usually overwhelms. The really interesting versions seem like they would use motion to make distance/relative position innately meaningful, but I've never hit on the right way to do that coherently.

And also an ongoing, esoteric prototype on the distance side: it's term-rewriting on multisets of terms, where clusters of adjacent grid cells make up a multiset, and distant groups are independent until they touch. It's very impractical but distance (gaps) are semantic: ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~mwh/anatile/

I have this system, with semantic layout: mwh.nz/pubs/paint2022 & michael.homer.nz/Publications...

Arguably though it is creating hidden wires through adjacency, although that's not really the point of it (or how it works). The semantic part is "above/below", so there's no arbitrary positioning.

Think of it as he can resign immediately before taking the electorate seat, triggering a replacement from the list, then take up the byelection seat as though he was never there.