x86y / beacon

A native and a cross platform guide for BQN array programming language

Beacon

A native and a cross platform guide for BQN array programming language.

Features

• ` + KEY combination typing for BQN primitives
• Glyph toolbar (hover documentation missing for now)
• Tabs (Ctrl + n,p to go to next/prev tab & Ctrl + t,q to open/close a tab)
• History & tabs persistence
• Cross-platform

Linux/MacOS instructions

> git clone https://github.com/x86y/beacon
> cd beacon
> cargo run --release

Alternatively, a nix flake is provided:

$ git clone https://github.com/x86y/beacon
$ cd beacon
$ nix run   # Alternatively: nix develop -c cargo run --release

Windows instructions

> git clone https://github.com/x86y/beacon
> cd beacon
> BQN_WASM=./BQN.wasm cargo run --release --no-default-features --features=bqnwasm

The code relies a lot on detegr's bqn bindings, and uses tooltip documentation files from his bqnlsp/genhelp tool! Check it out at: https://sr.ht/~detegr/bqnlsp/