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Show HN: W++ – A Python-style scripting language for .NET with NuGet support

Published on: 2025-06-13 03:58:01

At least we’re better than Visual Basic. W++ is a fun, experimental, and completely over-engineered programming language designed for learning, chaos, and memes. It includes async lambdas, pseudo-OOPSIE principles (Object-Oriented Programming Sometimes Isn’t Excellent), and full integration with a custom-built VSCode extension. This repo contains the full source code of W++ after it reached over 33,000 downloads on the VSCode Marketplace — and was mysteriously flagged and removed. ✨ Features ✅ Full tokenizer, parser, and interpreter written in C# ✅ Async/await support ✅ Lambda expressions (single and multi-param) ✅ Control flow: if , else , while , for , switch , , , , ✅ Try/catch + throw and return and ✅ Custom syntax highlighting and snippets in VSCode ✅ The OOPSIE model of development (trust us, it’s revolutionary) 🧠 Why does W++ exist? This project was created by Ofek Bickel as an educational challenge — to build a real, working language from scratch and share it with ... Read full article.