Here's the story of how we ended up creating our own programming language.

https://medium.com/@samir_majhi/...

I'd love to get feedback from the excellent dev community on what we did.

I read it and it seems more buzzworded than actual article to me? what did you really create in the end, vuejs/laravel...?

We built a language that can be used to insert data into a webpage from the server side. This is so that Google would not miss out on crawling dynamic content. @JoshBent

So a templating "engine".. theres tons of it out there I really don't see the silicon valley in your project

@JoshBent The templating engines i know make API calls from the front end to the backend using javascript. Google ignores javascript while crawling.

If you know of any templating engines that do data injection server side, using code written in HTML files, the way we do, please do let me know.

@samir so you set tags for example {{ and }}, anything inside gets replaced by variables - I am still sceptical of the millenial milestone you did?

@JoshBent before serving the html file*

@JoshBent Yes. Not variables but the values of the variables.

@samir Well thats what I meant, I really dont see whats so special about it, all you called so innovative can be done in 20 lines or less, are you from marketing perhaps?

I like the idea of serving different templats based on location, but that would really need to be proven to be not counter productive in the end.

@JoshBent Do you know of any such framework already available?

We have also taken care of the db creation, and get, set for you.
You just specify your data structure, we create that. Then you can get data just like variables in a program. E.g with [[Business.name]].

So a front end dev doesn't have to do anything back end. Not even deployment.

It also allows you to repeat divs right inside the html based on how long the array returned is. No javascript needed.

@samir so you made me look more into this sketchy looking advertisement/business and it seems your business model isn't really growing into real customers either - 350€ charging for what is basically a templating "engine" with a very annoying website to follow. (a virtual assistant that is barely mobile optimized, forcing you to enter your name and is slow as hell) You spent more time marketing this, forcing it down peoples throats, writing blogs, than you actually did developing it. I know devrant seems like a really delicious idea to market even more "for free", but here people actually know what actually went into developing this. By the way to address what you wrote - yes binding database-data to a template-variable is a thing too.

And what framework would I need to do just this simple task of file_get_contents + str_replace + pdo.

@JoshBent Thanks for taking the time to investigate and reply, harsh though it may be.

The Rs 25k product, called Lighthouse isn't meant for devs but for small businesses. So that they can get their own website and update it themselves using an app. No coding required. We have 200k customers like that. But yes we do have the problem of unprofessional sales people and not unsatisfactory customer support. We're working on fixing that.

I am not in marketing. I built the product. And I wanted to get feedback from good developers.

@JoshBent +1

@samir I really don't see what your product is, if not just an overhyped and well marketed small project - show us something actual and you might get more attention, all you presented now is that you didnt actually invent anything nor create anything new ("programming language" is probably just buzzing too). Where are the docs to your "programming language" show us examples of websites in different locations, show us live businesses that use your product, details, details, details.