[jamon51]

Hey, fun to see my fun little project showing up on HN!

Yes, aliasing the CLI command to a remote script is not exactly best practice. My casual question to myself when I made it was … what’s the literal easiest way I could get this to work on someone’s computer with as few dependencies as possible? This was the solution I came up with. (And in my defense, it is similar to how you install homebrew … `/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://xn--rvg)`, but I get that most wouldn’t trust a somewhat random GitHub account like this.)

If you have any questions about this, let me know! My website (https://jamon.dev) runs on it (in a DigitalOcean droplet) and I’ve enjoyed the experience.

[j45]

This is great because it is an entirely new way to teach programming that is tied to the web for beginners.

For those who started with basic and grew from there, the journey seems to have been critical to start with basic to have so many aha’s so early in learning a skill.

[cookiengineer]

This is such a wonderfully absurd and amazing project, I love it!

I think this has huge potential in the educational sector, and bridges the gap of how our generation learned programming back then and the modern web.

Again, kudos!

[j45]

Wonderful yes, not so sure if absurd makes sense?

Basic is a very capable beginners language to learn enough concepts.

Many developers had their first experiences of magic as kids with something like Basic.