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Learn tape on YouTube

Three tutorial series on the Tape Language channel: tape from the first install, a ray tracer from scratch, and a whole game. Everything shown in the videos is written in tape.

Made with a combination of AI, automation and human work, and with a love for programming.

start from the beginning the channel

B01 · Installing tape · youtu.be/QLGR5s6jLeY

66 episodes

tape for beginners

Oct26 · one subject an episode

Short episodes, one subject each, from installing tape and hello world to structs, errors as values, modules, tests, files, JSON, windows, threads and pointers. For people new to programming or new to tape.

“Oct26” means made with tape as of October 2026; a later tape may do some things differently.

Start here · B01

Installing tape

How do I get tape onto my computer, so tape works in any terminal?

New to tape? Install tape, then follow along.

rayracer

a ray tracer in tape

Writing a path tracer from scratch: from pixels to a file, through spheres, materials, all the cores, meshes and a BVH, textures, the sky and color, to bidirectional path tracing.

Start here · R01

Pixels to a file

From an empty project to the sky as a PNG, a viewer of our own that keeps up with it, and Vec3 with tests.

Protect the Gaffers Fort

a game in tape

Episodes of about 20 minutes each, building a whole game from an empty folder. A horde of up to 500,000 zombies is stepped in compute shaders written in tape, the world is generated from a seed, and the rules run as scripts in tape’s embedded VM. It ends with the released game.

Still coming out: one episode a day at 13:15 UTC, until G19 on 20 November.

Start here · G01

A window on the GPU

A window on the GPU through tape's gpu module: its events matched one by one, cleared every frame, a triangle drawn by a vertex and a pixel shader written in tape, the frame time in the title, and --frames N for runs without a hand on the keys.