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There was actually quite a lot of discussion on the mailing list (primary community back then) when we had to shift priorities. https://groups.google.com/g/light-table-discussion/c…

Huh, not sure why the original link changed. It's still on my blog here: https://chris-granger.com/2012/04/12/light-table-a-new-ide-c...

You mention: The solution is to build a "graph" of archetypes to cache these results... If ComponentIds are densely packed, you can use sparse sets to cheaply jump between archetyp…

> I wish that a big company like Google, Apple or Microsoft attempted something bold in that space. Me too. I tried stirring things up a bit when we were nearing the end of Eve, bu…

The 17 lines don't include the parser or the code generator, which most people would count as "part of a compiler" in a practical sense. They are usually the most mechanical parts …

Yeah, there are many others I'd add to a more general list - Carmack, Bellard, Wirth, the folks from Our Machinery, etc. I was just referencing the people specifically mentioned in…

I'm working on tools/interfaces at Relational AI, which is doing really cool work in the declarative languages space. It was started by several of the folks whose papers were found…

I might strengthen your argument even more and say it's largely a non-technical problem. We have had the tools necessary to build good software for a long time. As others have poin…

Depends on your definition of genius, but I definitely agree that these folks don't quite hold up the sentiment that "anyone can do it." I would put Martin Thompson, Raph Levien, a…

Huh, does MIRI mean that rust is actually doing some form of partial evaluation during compilation? What's the best way to learn more about that?

There were a few directions we went hereafter. One was thinking of the world in terms of simulations, another was statemachine oriented. There are a few things that were never quit…

I completely agree that the semantics are probably the most overall useful thing we presented in this version of Eve. Having the world just be views over a datastore that you don't…

yeah, that was a very early version that we never released publicly, but was effectively a cleaned up version "Aurora," which I presented at Strange Loop once upon a time ago.

For what it's worth, I have used Vim since ~2004. When I built Light Table, one of the first things I did was put a Vim mode into it. I understand pretty well why at least I use Vi…

HARC no longer exists unfortunately.

Perhaps, but it's pretty easy to make judgements from the sideline about what people should or shouldn't do. I was the PM on Visual Studio. I can assure the things I showed in Ligh…

Hey Michael! Congrats on the launch :) Providing a one-size-fits-all solution here is probably impossible, but it seems like it would be nice to provide some mechanism to be notifi…

How do you deal with consistency in the offline case? E.g. If I make a bunch of edits while disconnected, and others have made edits while connected, how are the conflicts resolved…

do you have any pointers for learning about it? Looking up "Sun Dev Guide" didn't seem to find me anything related to GUI editors.

Is there anything written about your multi-way join algorithm? We've done some really interesting implementations of Generic Join and the like and are always interested in hearing …

That's not the standard meaning in my experience. Regex's are often used for extracting information from larger strings, forcing a full match by default would be pretty counter to …

That would also make this question specific to python, which wasn't at all what I was thinking about. It's a question about regular expressions, it should be as agnostic as possibl…

Question 9 appears to have two answers that are correct, but only one is accepted.