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Low coding or How programmers kill themselves

JA Proger — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 11:08:00 +0000

Low code.

Congrats, guys!

We created a monster which will kill us in the nearest future.
JA Proger, 2025

Not all, but still this will be disappointing.
How it was?

Prolog

Henceforth, we are free...
JA Proger, 2025

Introduction

Low coding appeared with the first automations. Consider the IntelliJ IDE or the Xcode. Autocompletions is one the most simplest low coding experiences for user. Autofilling forms in macOS or iPhone is also a low-coding.
Low-coding handles routine tasks, freeing up the user. So low-coding is any automation.

New milestone in Low-coding

New milestone in low-coding is an AI now. AI...
The AI turbocharged this concept.
AI creates code from text, AI creates code from code, AI creates code from image! Damn!
****ing stupid "big beautiful" neural nets better then us!
People don't need us, already??
I'm done. Sorry.

What's the power of AI? Tokens. We all love tokens. I'm creating the StaLang.
I know what tokens are: keywords, numbers, strings, etc. Tokens in NLP are words. In blockchain a single block is a token also.

Token — single entity, which we cannot split, that can be anything.

NNs digest tokens and returns the desired result. That's the power. That's the future.

Usage & Evolution

It's time for more formal description.

Low coding is a concept. The idea is simple — automate as many tasks as possible. Are you too lazy to write a code of an app which will covers your technology? Great news! SwiftUI + Xcode + Ollama or OpenAI know how to deal with your lack of enthusiasm.

Final

Well, fellows. We can't bit AI. Companies will fire most of coders and programmers.
Bad news for those, whose work was to change the keyword "class" to the keyword "protocol" in the Swift code.
But....

Any fired programmer can become a developer of his/her project. You can hire a single programmer to your project — AI. Your infrastructure is JetBrains with their AI, VSCode with an AI plugin, Xcode with GPT or local ollama free model.

Henceforth, we are free...

NoMarkdown Tool Release

JA Proger — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:23:38 +0000

Sorry, bro... U'll be save
JA Proger, 2025

How it was appeared?

Since appearing of chatbots, many people started to use them. Developers of AI apps wanted to help their users. They decided to simplify AI responses with visualization, thus they implemented Markdown syntax into AI responses.
Nice and beautiful Markdown syntax, which is a standart in programmers' world, was discredited by HUMANITARIANES.
Unfortunately, since that times Markdown becames a trigger of "bad AI".

I believe we have to hide our creature, hence I created a CLI tool — NoMarkdown. All texts created by AI have to be UNMARKDOWNED.

Docs & Installation

Install from GitHub:
NoMarkdown

StaLang Lesson No 2.1. Operators

JA Proger — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:09:04 +0000

THIS LESSON IS ACTIVELY BEING WRITTEN

Intro
Operators
Links

Intro

Operators

Basic

Arithmetic

StaLang, as you know, is a DSL programming language designed for statistics, economics, AI learning, and other staff like that. Therefore I added operators, which can handles calculations related with this.

Operation	Oper
Addition	`+`
Subtraction	`-`
Multiplication
Division
Power
Integer division
Rest of division
Modular inverse
Percentage
Derivative
Gradient

Binary

Basic Logic

Operation	Oper
And	`&&`
Or	`
Not	{% raw %}`!`
Xor	`&
Bigger	{% raw %}`>`
Less	`<`
Equal	`==`
Not equal	`!=`
Bigger or equal	`>=`
Less of equal	`<=`

Fuzzy Logic

Nil

Random

Type cast

String

List and Matrixes

Operation	Operator
Append
Remove
Add
Subtraction
Multiplication

Abstract

StaLang Lesson No 3 Functions

JA Proger — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 06:50:10 +0000

COMMING SOON

StaLang Lesson No 2 Storages

JA Proger — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 06:44:25 +0000

THIS LESSON IS ACTIVELY BEING WRITTEN

Intro
Storage definition

Intro

The quote for all concepts in StaLang, especially for this lesson

My language — My rules
JA Proger, 2025

Storage definition

Storage? What's the hell STORAGE concept in programming?
Frankly speaking, it's my idea 😈 to unify many keywords which are wonderfully can be included to this definition — Storage.

Basic storages

Basic storages in StaLang are

Data data
Constant const
List list
Matrix matrix
Alias alias

Why so?
I just like this. Recall the quote in the Intro section 😈. Well, all of them designed for the purpose of the StaLang.
Let's dive into details.

Data

What is data?
Data is a storage which can brings anything: values, structures instances, functions.

Consider the following example:

type Bulb {
   ON,
   OFF
}
data five = 5;
data bulb: Bulb = ::ON;

Comparison with other languages:

Language	Variable keyword
StaLang	data
Swift	var
Rust	let mut
Go	var
Python	nothing 😂
TypeScript	const
Lua	local

Const

List

Alias

Alias is a storage which stores your custom alias for existed keyword.
There are several requirements to aliases:

Alias must be a valid ID

alias 0g = out; // You cannot do this. It will raise an error

Alias cannot be an existed keyword.

alias type = out; // You cannot do this. It will raise an error

Valid example:

alias sexwith = out;
sexwith "girl"; // prints "girl"

ID

StaLang Lesson No 1 Values & Types

JA Proger — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:14:07 +0000

THIS LESSON IS ACTIVELY BEING WRITTEN

Intro
Builtin Values
Values' Types
Data types
Final thoughts
Links

Intro

Let's deal with it! It's not complicated if you ever have been programming something.

The StaLang is in development

StaLang Docs is in drvelopment

Builtin Values

In StaLang there are 4 builtin values:

True true
False false
Nil nil
None none
Later later.

True & False

Nil

Nil value is an absence of any value. Funny 😆.
In StaLang nil is highly similar to Nil concept in other languages like Go, Swift, and etc.
Nil is handled with a bench of operators (more info on operators is here).

Let's consider the following example:

/* 
we define a value `email` which can be a string or nil.  
*/
data email: str? = later;  

fetch(_ userId: int) -> str? |> Server::fetch(userId);

const userId: int = 4;
email = fetch userId ?? "no email"

fetch is a labeled function. More info on functions is here.

None

None is an absence of any value. What's the difference between none and nil?
None will not raise an error because any value in StaLang can be none.
When you define a new data without assigning to it a value, the StaLang interpreter automatically assigns to it a none value, not nil.
Imagine you fetch user data from a server.

core Net;

const url: str = "https://localhost:8000";
const userId: int = 1; 
data userName: str;
data userAge: str;
data userGender: str;

data userModel = Net::Server(url).fetch userId ?? "UserId is not valid";
userName = userModel::userName;
userAge = userModel::userAge;
userGender = userModel::userGender;

The example is hypothetical, nevertheless good for understanding difference between nil and none.

The data userName will has a string value "user", because in the database the user has an assigned name.
The data userEmail will have a none value, because the user has no assigned userEmail.
The data userGender will have a value nil and the NilError will be raised, because the userModel has not the property userGender, therefore we can't get a value, assigned to it.

Later

Later is a value, not a keyword, which means that you are a lazy programmer and don't want to assign a value right now. When you will run your code, the interpreter will execute a Lazy Warning.

Values' Types

Value types are basic types of data, such as string, numbers, etc.

In StaLang there are following value types.

String str
Integer int
Float float
Bool bool
Number num
Binary bin
Hexadecimal hex
Any any

Comparison with other languages:

Type	StaLang	Swift	Rust	TypeScript	Python
Integer	int	Int			int
Number	num	-		number
String	str	String	str	string
Character	-	Character
Binary
Hexadecimal
Float
Double
Dynamic / Auto
Any

In StaLang there is no character type. Character methods are implicated to the string type.

Example code:

data x1: int = 5;
data x2: float = 5.4;
data x3: str = "5";
data x4: bool = 5 > 5.4; // false
data x5: bin = ;
data x6: hex = 5;
data x7:

Data types

COMMING SOON

Final thoughts

COMMING SOON

StaLang Lessons

JA Proger — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:07:04 +0000

Intro

Welcome to the StaLang Lessons series!

StaLang and Lessons are CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT

The quote for all concepts in StaLang

My language — My rules
JA Proger, 2025

Here you will learn all StaLang features following StaLang Docs

StaLang IDE Announcement

JA Proger — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:24 +0000

Early Announcement

StaLang IDE is designed for StaLang and will be available in macOS. It will be written in Swift with SwiftUI, SwiftData, and AppKit.

It will support:

Code highlighting
Code completions
Terminal Emulator
Full StaLang documentation
Writing custom docs in Markdown
StaLang Cores

GitHub: IDE
GitHub: StaLang

StaLang Announce Read the post: https://dev.to/japroger/stalang-announce-3m0f GitHub: https://github.com/ja-proger/StaLang

JA Proger — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:18:29 +0000

StaLang Announce

JA Proger ・ Nov 23

#dsl #news #swift #stalang

GitHub - ja-proger/StaLang: StaLang is an interpreted DSL programming language designed for statistics, economics, analytics, AI training.

StaLang is an interpreted DSL programming language designed for statistics, economics, analytics, AI training. - ja-proger/StaLang

github.com

StaLang Announce

JA Proger — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 10:37:32 +0000

Announce

StaLang (Statistics Language) is a interpreted DSL programming language designed for economics, statistics, analytics, AI training.
It supports OOP, FP, MP. Also it has unusual grammar (keywords, structures, logic).
Source code originally will be written in Swift.

Although it is currently in development, I made this announcement.
If you have any ideas what functionality it should include, feel free to write down your ideas!

GitHub: https://github.com/ja-proger/StaLang

VolBack: Backup tool

JA Proger — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 19:03:35 +0000

Intro

VolBack?
What's it?
I started to think about potential sum of volumes of everyday backups.
Backup is a full copy of the system for a unit of time (UT).
We know that backups is one of the most important part in backend of any computer system.
Nevertheless, we know backups have weaknesses... There's only one — duplication. Funny thing is that duplication in the case of backups is essential.

Math section

Basic case

Imagine we have a CRM, which has a lifetime of 3 days.
We need to backup it each day.

Day 1. We added 100 mb
Day 2. We added 50 mb
Day 3. We added 30 mb

What does it mean?

Backup for day 1: 100 mb
Backup for day 2: 100 mb + 50 mb =150 MB
Backup for day 3: 150 mb + 30 mb =180 MB

Nice!

So the total backup volume will be: 100 mb + 150 mb + 180 mb =430 MB.

To handle this calculations I find a mathematical formula for this process.

$S_n = n \cdot x_1 + \sum_{i=1}^{n-1} (n - i) * a_i$

If:

$n > 1$
$∣ a ∣ = n - 1$
$x_1 > 0$
$S_n > 0$

Where:

n: quantity of UT (second, hour, day, etc)
$x_1$ : initial value of volume at first UT
a: array of a values (additions in volume at each IT)

Special cases

There are special cases of backup volume calculations.

If n = 1, we don't need a at all. Therefore $S_1 = x_1$
If a is absent, so $Sn=n⋅x1S_n = n \cdot x_1$
If a is static, so $Sn=n⋅x1+∑i=1n−1(n−i)⋅aS_n = n \cdot x_1 + \sum_{i=1}^{n-1} (n-i) \cdot a$

Development

I will expand this method in case when we don't know additions' values.

Watch the repository https://github.com/ja-proger/VolBack. Now available on Swift
Write down any ideas in the comments below!

DEV Community: JA Proger

Low coding or How programmers kill themselves

Prolog

Introduction

New milestone in Low-coding

Usage & Evolution

Final

NoMarkdown Tool Release

How it was appeared?

Docs & Installation

StaLang Lesson No 2.1. Operators

Contents

Intro

Operators

Basic

Arithmetic

Binary

Basic Logic

Fuzzy Logic

Nil

Random

Type cast

String

List and Matrixes

Abstract

Links

StaLang Lesson No 3 Functions

Links

StaLang Lesson No 2 Storages

Contents

Intro

Storage definition

Basic storages

Data

Const

List

Alias

ID

Links

StaLang Lesson No 1 Values & Types

Contents

Intro

Builtin Values

True & False

Nil

None

Later

Values' Types

Data types

Final thoughts

Links

StaLang Lessons

Intro

Links

StaLang IDE Announcement

Early Announcement

StaLang Announce Read the post: https://dev.to/japroger/stalang-announce-3m0f GitHub: https://github.com/ja-proger/StaLang

StaLang Announce

JA Proger ・ Nov 23

GitHub - ja-proger/StaLang: StaLang is an interpreted DSL programming language designed for statistics, economics, analytics, AI training.

StaLang Announce

Announce

VolBack: Backup tool

Intro

Math section

Basic case

Special cases

Development