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Show HN: I got frustrated with SMILES, so I built onehttps://github.com/sangeet01/scriptHi HN, I'm an undergrad in Nepal.For the last 35 years, computational chemistry and AI drug discovery have relied on SMILES to represent molecules. It was great for the 1980s, but today it is a massive bottleneck. It’s non-canonical, its stereochemistry parsing is fragile, and it completely breaks down when trying to represent organometallics, alloys, or polymers. To parse it reliably, you basically need a 300MB C++ dependency (RDKit) relying on decades of hard-coded heuristics.I got frustrated and realized that representing matter isn't a graph theory problem—it’s a linguistics problem.To fix it, I built SCRIPT (Structural Chemical Representation in Plain Text). I based the core parser on the generative linguistics of Pāṇini’s Sanskrit grammar. Instead of treating a molecule as a string of dumb nodes, SCRIPT treats it as a language of Roots, States (Vibhakti), and Relationships (Sandhi).I just released V3 today for Pi Day.How it works & what it fixes: • Aromaticity without the mess: SMar 14, 2026 7:55 AM










