Introducing Frankie — The Programming Language — “It’s alive!” 🧟⚡

You might or might not, but I like to call myself a Programming Languages Archaeologist, mainly because I like to find and learn old programming languages that most likely nobody uses in modern day 🤓 But I also like learning about brand new programming languages. If you haven't read it already, I have a nice and ongoing series named Exploring Programming Languages, where I develop the same code in multiple programming languages. Currently, there are more than 60 🥹 But anyway, let's talk about Frankie - The Programming Language 🧟‍♂️ So I teamed up with Anthropic's Claude, and together we created, coded, vibe coded, whatever, a programming language which by definition is: Stitched together from Ruby • Python • R • Fortran Why? Because those 4 are my favourite programming languages 😅 The foundation is Python, while the syntax is Ruby-like with commands that come from R and Fortran, besides obviously Ruby and Python. Frankie is an interpreted language that can be compiled to Python source