How do I let others use my custom golfing language?

Question

I'm currently working on my own golfing language which is based on Python 3. Once this language is finished, what would be the best way to let other people use it? I know TIO is very widespread here, and that some users' languages are on TIO - is there a way to get my language on TIO as well (and, if so, would there be an easy way to maintain my language if I wanted to add an update)?

As it stands right now, this language is far from complete (and doesn't actually have a name yet, so I'm open to suggestions). This language will get its code through a single parse(String) method, where String is the code itself.

Answer 1

Try It Online! is maintained by a PPCG user, Dennis, and has a chatroom for discussion around it. This is the most common way to request a language be added and maintained (other ways are listed on TIO's home page). However, at time of writing, Dennis is currently inactive (reasons can be found starred in talk.tryitonline.net), so while you can (and should) request your language to be added, I wouldn't expect it to happen soon.

Aside from TIO, you should take a look at this page, which asks similar questions about how to popularise your language. The most common method is to make the code publicly available (e.g. Github) and start answering in the language.

Furthermore, don't hesitate to swing by The Tarpit, a chatroom for creating languages.

Answer 2

Create answers written in your language

The best way to advertise a language is to answer challenges with your language! People will eventually discover your language and start using it too. This demonstrates why is your language good and why should people use it.

Make friends with active users here by chatting in The Nineteenth Byte (don't create your own chatroom. That's what you'll do when your language gets at least a little bit popular. Discussion in TNB is much more likely to be noticed than discussion in a custom chatroom.) and let them use your language. Have one or two stable users other than you.

Answer 3

Make a good tutorial, and make your language accessible.

That's the main reason I started coding in MAWP. It's because:

• It has an online interpeter which generates PPCG answers, and has a debugger.
• It is not insanely hard to understand from it's website.

Those two criteria were more than enough to learn and implement things in it.

Answer 4

Port the Interpreter to JavaScript

Most of the answers here don't actually answer the question of how to best make the interpreter accessible to everyone. So I'll add a way that opens up the programming language to easy online usage.

Here is the process I'd use to make an online interpreter (it may not be the most efficient way, but thus far, it's the only way presented)

Step 1: Create a simple user interface

Ensure these things are present on the page:

• Code box (where the program goes)
• Input box (where the program's input goes)
• Output box (self explanatory)

Step 2: Actually translate the base interpreter to js

Turn the program in the non-web-friendly language into js line by line.

You could look at transpilers (in this case, python to js). But make sure that it translates it properly. An example python transpiler is Transcrypt.

Step 3: Link js and html

This is pretty simple: use things like <script> tags to include the js files.

And that's it. This is highly oversimplified, but it's a reasonable method of making an online interpreter.

I'd recommend hosting your interpreter on something like Github Pages (which is 100% free).