Mobile dev is good for your health!
Since MOGWAI went open source, one question keeps coming back — on GitHub, in private messages, or just from my own experience showing it to colleagues — and it’s always the same: *”Okay, but where do I start?”* The existing documentation answers *”how does this primitive work”* or *”what’s the syntax for this structure”* very … Read more
A few days ago, a reader sent me a screenshot of a conversation he’d had with Google’s AI Mode while searching “mogwai sibué”. I expected a slightly flat summary of my GitHub README. What I found instead was an AI that had apparently decided to write its own version of MOGWAI — closer to what … Read more
MOGWAI recently gained its core HTTP primitives (http.get, http.post, http.put, http.patch, http.delete, http.head). The perfect excuse to put them through a real use case instead of a toy example: querying the GitHub API to see how many times MOGWAI’s CLI binaries have been downloaded, release by release. I didn’t write this script myself — Claude … Read more
A Snake game… in RPN? MOGWAI is an RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) scripting engine for .NET, inspired by HP RPL from the HP 28S and HP 48 calculators. Postfix notation, a stack-based model, low-level primitives… none of that sounds like the natural environment for a video game. And yet, here is MOGWAI Snake: a fully … Read more
New update for the MOGWAI VS Code extension. This version brings a very practical everyday feature: a list of all functions declared in the current script. Function List and Navigation When working on a substantial .mog file with many declared functions, quickly finding a specific one can become tedious. v1.1.0 solves this with two complementary … Read more
Introduction There are thousands of programming languages. Most share the same mental grammar: expressions, functions that take arguments in parentheses, variables assigned with =. This grammar is so dominant that we end up confusing it with programming itself. MOGWAI does not belong to this family. It is a concatenative, stack-based, homoiconic and reflective language, designed … Read more
A few days after the v1.0 release, a new version of the VS Code extension for MOGWAI is available. This update brings multi-file debugging, animated TRON mode, and several important fixes. Multi-File Step-by-Step Debugging This is the highlight of this update. MOGWAI supports including external code files via the mogwai.include primitive. Until now, step-by-step debugging … Read more
Some development days go exactly as hoped. This is one of them. Starting from almost nothing — on a framework I barely knew — I built a fully-featured MOGWAI REPL in a single session, running natively on Windows, Linux and macOS. With the help of my buddy Claude, of course. The context: why Avalonia? I’ve … Read more
MOGWAI 8.7 is now available on NuGet. This release does not introduce any major architectural change — instead, it consolidates and extends what already exists, with four new primitives covering distinct needs and two significant bug fixes. guid7 — truly sortable identifiers MOGWAI already offered guid to generate UUID v4 identifiers. Version 8.7 adds guid7, … Read more
The Formula Calculator app is a concrete example of what you can build with GIZMO in just a few lines: the user types a mathematical formula with a variable X, defines a range and a step, and gets a table of computed values on the fly. The full source code is available in the GIZMO … Read more