Mobile dev is good for your health!
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