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I think you’re missing the point…

I feel like this question doesn’t need a blog post to answer. Why write code in 2026? Because it’s fun.

It’s difficult to interpret his position as being in good faith given the organisation that controls and represents.

Gods I feel old…

I’m gonna hazard a guess and say that I don’t think the author has any troops anywhere, let alone in Ukraine.

Those issues could have been fixed…

So it sounds like you don’t get the exact version you want because metadata is thrown away.

I think the law is wrong…

I definitely miss Darcs. I still use it very occasionally, but only with very small repos.

Did you read what this does? Because I get the feeling you didn’t… This isn’t a library, you don’t include in your application, and it doesn’t try to replace an understanding of fl…

I guess when you’ve been calling it that before everyone else you’re allowed. Sort of how Common Lisp calls threads ‘processes’.

Ha, I was going to say the exact opposite. My first thought was that the website was broken.

To be fair, the examples are extremely easy to overlook. They are also, to put it delicately, not the most helpful.

That feels fundamentally broken. How can you expect an organisation to respond appropriately if you don’t provide them any kind of proof?

Well my first testing of the waters was classified as a misdirected love letter.

It looks like there’s a download link that contains the source code. Presumably you untar it, follow any necessary build instructions, and then run it.

I love to see modern analysis of these machine!

Ah. So we’re recreating COBOL in 2026 I see.

This very much depends on your definition of ‘best’. While your criticisms of the environment are valid, smalltalk is flexible in tangible ways that Java couldn’t match. Java took …

I can’t be alone in this, but this seems like a supremely terrible idea. I reject whole heartedly the idea that any sizeable portion of one’s code base should specifically /not/ be…

It’s heartbreaking.

That kind of feedback is also possible within this framework in theory. It depends on at what level the abstract interpreter is operating. If it’s the source level then it’s easy, …

The sheer amount of linear algebra number crunching vs some database lookups is monumental. I don’t see how an LLM could ever be as efficient as a search engine.

HyperCard is one of my all time favourite memories of Mac OS.

What an utterly delightful itty bitty scheme. <3