It looks nice and all... but what can I do with it? Citing Paul Graham[0] You Need an Application to Drive the Design of a Language.
What is the use case here? The readme describes vaguely that it's more suited to arbitrary length data processing and generation... but I can't come up with a practical example for which this IDE is applicable. I wish the developer would showcase SOMETHING besides the base interactions. Anyone have any ideas?
Clicking through on the link that says "more discussion here" [1] the OP does at least explain the original problem with Excel that he was trying to address:
>Mesh was started because I couldn't find a way in Excel to output the results of a formula across an arbitrary number of cells. ...
This is definitely on the right lines.
But it's a very difficult problem, both from a UI design point of view and actually producing a performant implementation in Javascript.
I'm in the same thought as you about this. IDE's are designed for one common purpose: Efficiency. In fact, everything that has to do with software engineering drives towards efficiency. This appears more like a pet project than a product with a vision of solving a specific problem.
What is the use case here? The readme describes vaguely that it's more suited to arbitrary length data processing and generation... but I can't come up with a practical example for which this IDE is applicable. I wish the developer would showcase SOMETHING besides the base interactions. Anyone have any ideas?
[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/langdes.html