Kaixo. I have no idea how I ended up here, but hey, this feels like the right sort of audience. I have been working for maybe two years or so on a project called Wirewright, which evolved from an amorphous blob of code that did not do anything in particular into a system that lets you "treat programs and algorithms as physical mechanisms, as machines or societies of machines inhabiting an immutable symbolic world". After thinking a bit about where the project is heading, I came up with the term symbolic physics, which is apparently already claimed, but the claim is, I'd say, fairly minor, so whatever. With Wirewright, I'm trying to work at the intersection of, primarily, cellular automata, term rewriting, symbolic computation, dataflow, artificial life, and heavy inspiration from (but not copying of) biology, especially neurobiology. I'm not sure how much more I should write here. I tried to write stuff in the README. The main question I'd like to ask is whether anything I'm talking about in the README or in the tutorial makes sense, and, if so, then what kind of sense it makes. There's also the question of whether the tutorial is followable and whether the general idea of the project can be grasped from it. I cannot check these things myself because I already know everything about the project. Thank you for your attention.

hi! do you speak euskera? 🙂

Unfortunately, no 🙂 I only know a few words: "kaixo", "euskara", "mundua", also I think "auskaldi", "izan", "zen", and maybe some other random ones. I have no idea what these last few words mean, but that was kind of the idea of the method I used to learn them. Also "zuzenean" and stuff. It feels strange to have Euskara words randomly coming to you without knowing what they mean. "Bai", "bat". But yeah, it just got too boring too soon. But the language is cool. I also hoard some Euskara grammar books from time to time and watch shows/listen audiobooks. So the language is definitely in my strategic plans, but right now it's more of an unmanaged hobby, so to speak. Do you?

two of my grandparents were from there but my mother never learned the language. I tried learning it but it's really hard 😄

Yeah, it is! I'd call it a long journey from the language-lands most of us inhabit. And then there are even weirder things, such as "Basque-Icelandic pidgin"...

A quick look suggests this is definitely our kind of stuff.

@homonoidian Please consider doing a demo of Wirewright at one of our online meet-ups!

That'd be nice, but I'm not sure how soon I'd be able to do that. I'll see. Right now, where I live, there's a lot of turbulence, so to speak. Unfortunately I can't plan too far ahead at the moment. That's part of the reason I'm sharing the thing in arguably not quite a polished state. I'm also afraid I'll confuse everyone even more if I try to do a live demo 🙂 So I'll consider it but no promises at the moment. But I'm glad you people found (or is it find?) the project interesting!