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What can you actually do with programming? (lemmy.world)

submitted 20 hours ago by black_lotus@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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So recently I've stumbled upon a video, where a guy creates an animation by programming it with maanim.

And after that I also found a way to create music with programming too.

So I'm wondering.. What else can you actually create using programming? Besides the obvious software, VR, AR and all that

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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 hours ago

"AsCode" is so freaking neat to me. Mermaid.js make diagrams as code. Openscad so you can CAD as code. LaTex for making writing mathmatical formulas (and more it's a very rich mark up language). Reveal.js to make a slideshow as code. Markdown can make some really nice documentation. With tools like Markdeck so you turn that into a slide deck.

The infra as code and config as code (k8s yaml, helm, open tofu, ansible, Guix, nix, etc) are also super powerful but are kind of just tools for computer people. Though some of policyAsCode stuff seems like it can start to blur some interesting lines too, either by putting weird things k8s, or in your ci/cd workflow or by OPA/cedar integrations.

There is also digital twins! Eclipse BaSyx is apparently a growing standard for but that is a neat thing creating really world system models that you can run simulations on but also run real world equipment off of to.

Also apparently (typing this got me interested to see what was new out there!) there is OpenFisca for modeling tax policy as code that can be used to simulate how tax code would effect households! Catala is a "laws as code" DSL for turning legal texts into executable programs. Also smart contracts, and Decentralized Autonomous Orginizations (DAOs) in the crypto space are neat as a tech (ignoring the grifting in the space since they got linked to US investment market).