Replacements

Booleans

The boolean literal keywords true and false can be replaced with affirmative and negative. They compile to basic true and false keywords.

The SYSROOT variable

SYSROOT or ~/ is a special thing in that it allows you to make boring stuff look a bit less boring. In compiled Nonstraightforward code, you can find a constant named SYSROOT declared at the very top. It looks something like this:

const SYSROOT = {
    stdout: { write: ln: console.log },
    stderr: { write: ln: console.error },
    get random() {
        return Math.random();
    },
    get urandom() {
        return SYSROOT.random;
    },
    get zero() { return 0; },
};

~/usr/bin

~/usr/bin/variable is a convenient way to access a variable. It compiles to a normal variable, but it looks better than a raw identifier.

~/dev

~/dev or SYSROOT.dev, named after the virtual filesystem thing in POSIX, is a thing containing stdout, stderr, random, urandom, and zero.

stdout and stderr

stdout and stderr are both objects that contain an object that looks like { write: { ln: ... } }. The innermost object in stdout contains console.log and stderr has console.error.

random and urandom

These are both just getters that return the value of Math.random().

zero

This is just a getter that returns zero.