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I'm all for a rewrite of existing systems, but I think that's going to be a long-term thing (5-10 years) that will happen in parallel to developments in treating code as a database…

Great post. I see two big challenges. 1. How do you do this without changing the way we program? The most amount of value I would get from this kind of tool is being able to spelun…

Hey there HN, I'm Jieren, and I'm building this app here. I submitted this two months ago and I wanted to share again as there's been some significant progress. Instead of a fairly…

Hey there HN, I'm Jieren, and I'm building this app here. I submitted this two months ago and I wanted to share again as there's been some significant progress. Instead of a fairly…

Same reaction here: "How is this a problem?" I think it's in the nature of big companies to view everything as a process optimization problem and losing out on "innovators" is view…

This is very cool! It's really awesome to see this code as data concept gaining a lot of traction recently. Hope to see this project developed further. I'm working on a similar pro…

Back up now. Was it a 502 or did it lock up?

Thanks! Yes, that's part of the ultimate vision. The challenge will be figuring out how to represent these transformations.

Hi there HN, I'm Jieren, creator of SourceScape. SourceScape is a query engine for source code that lets you build up constraints for the code you want to see, much like GraphQL in…

Figuring out how to fill the gap between code search and static analysis (code checks.) Right now the tools we have for programmatically reading through code are: 1. Code search, w…

Hey there HN, I'm Jieren, creator of SourceScape. SourceScape is a query engine for source code that lets you build up constraints for the code you want to see, much like a SQL que…

> The oldest: GC was originally invented for Lisp. It's common now. LISP was so ahead of its time, its parents still haven't met yet. Not very FP, but another gem from SBCL: saving…

Or the visitor pattern, which is.... the map function. One thing I will note from recent experience: programming for a long time with immutability cripples your ability to think ab…

We should draw a distinction between FP as religion and FP as tool kit. FP as religion has failed to gain acceptance because it imposes too much cost on the user. I have to rethink…

What I've found is that the real challenge for a beginner is making continuous and sustained progress. The key number in the (1.01)^365 equation is the ^365 part. Do something diff…

The funny thing about knowledge work is that it sits somewhere between additive and compounding. Additive like: Let's say you shovel sand into a pit and you shovel 1% more than you…

> They complement each other. There are certain things that I’d love to pull up a command line for (e.g. quickly aligning dozens of objects using a non trivial heuristic); but on t…

This is exceptionally cool. Thanks for sharing and building! When I'm using Sketch or Movie Maker or Logic or some other GUI-based >>x To me Ronin is some strong validation that al…