Welcome

Revision as of 18:59, 22 June 2020 by 66.90.149.252 (talk) (→‎Introduction: rename section to "Introduction" (for now), mention glossary, and tweak wording)


This is the wiki for triplescripts.org — committed to software tooling for the out-crowd.

Applications

What triple scripts are well-suited for:

  • portable, no-fuss build scripts
  • auditable, offline software security fobs
  • file format decompressors, explorers, manipulators, etc
  • ... and other utilities that perform limited file IO; particularly suited for many file inputs, zero or one file outputs

What triple scripts are not suited for:

  • networked applications

Triple scripts are for everyone, but not for all things. (See other mantras.)

Participating

Why should you participate in triplescripts.org?:

  • triplescripts.org cares about software longevity
  • most accessible software stack in the world
  • greenfield module ecosystem


Who shouldn't participate in triplescripts.org?:

  • people who think minification is an acceptable compromise
  • people whose foremost concern is making the GitHub contribution graph light up green and their npm package rosters look full
  • people who are enamored with the NodeJS and NPM ecosystems in general

Introduction

As of June 2020, the wiki is quite sparse. Seek info from some of the following pertinent pages:

... and other terms listed in the glossary.

For those completely unacquainted with triple scripts and triple script development, please pay special attention to the triple script invariants. Given their importance, we'll repeat them here: we say that triple scripts are...

  • self-contained
  • homologous
  • automorphic