As I mentioned in 12 New Languages, I'm learning a new programming language each month in 2013. To go along with this effort, I need a dozen things worth building -- one for each language.

I'm going to try to play to the strengths of each language. Here's the initial lineup:

• Icon: "bucher" -- write books containing tons of code, using Markdown
• Go: "gebildet" -- better than bucher
• Common Lisp: yet another "make" tool; rogue-like game
• Scala: finance app with a Swing UI
• Java: a simple word game for Android
• Dart: rogue in "html5"
• D: ?
• Ruby: ?
• Groovy: scraping git (via jgit) for more-than-stats (finding buggy modules?)
• Fortran: ?
• Squirrel: ?
• Forth: ?

(Scheduled projects subject to change at my whim...)