Future of Coding is an online community with a welcoming, cooperative, and revolutionary spirit. We are unified in the belief that the common practice of programming is tragically less humane than it could be.

Future of Coding

I think I shared this before, but Ivan told me to share this again because he thinks it is fascinating: I am working on a project called <https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Main_Page|Wikifunctions>. Wikifunctions was built in order to support Abstract Wikipedia, as described in <https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/building-a-multilingual-wikipedia/|this paper introducing Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions>. It is a short paper (here's the <https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3425778|PDF>), but there is also <https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04733|a long version> with far more details.

The goal of Wikifunctions is to allow for the creation of Abstract Wikipedia, to create natural language text from a language-independent notation anyone can edit directly, using functions from Wikifunctions. These functions are aimed to be writeable and maintainable also by non-programmers.

So far, Wikifunctions has collected a catalog of more than 3100 functions, in diverse areas such NLG, chemistry, maths, colors, etc.

You're working on Wikifunctions‽ That's so cool! I've been following y'all's work for a while.

Thanks! Yes, if you have any questions, or want to discuss the foundations, happy to do so!