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I thought a benefit of ES module was allowing cyclic dependencies, but I'm not reading any discussion of that.

Just poor writing. I've talked more about this on my blog. Open source usually only works for tools for hackers. I want to reach the rest of humanity.

Yeah, I've gotten a lot of pushback on that. One approach I've seen is to reject expressions that would violate standard precedence, and require extra parentheses.

Strong agree. The syntax in this work was meant to be mostly hidden from the end user. I've found that syntax is still really useful for language design and implementation. I stopp…

Interesting. Check out the futureofcoding.org slack. There are some workshops that take early stage ideas, like LIVE and PX. Keep working on your ideas and try to pull them togethe…

Well said. You know, sometime soon I need to make a stand. My gut check was that this wasn't the hill I'm willing to die on.

Yeah that didn't happen. I stopped this work before I got to reimplementing the UI. I worked out some problems I've been obsessing about forever, but the result is just too complex…

Thanks yeah it's got a long way to go.

Please take this as Computer Science Fiction

And then should "live programming", where the program is running while edited, become "gramming"?

How did I miss this? Thank you!

As a geezer with glasses, I find my laptop screen works better than a monitor. The laptop screen is down in the reading zone of my progressive lenses, yet I can still look up out t…

We are organizing a workshop using Illich's concept of conviviality to discuss the future of software. https://2020.programming-conference.org/home/salon-2020#Call...

The scariest thing about this article is it didn't contain the word "bubble"

Yeah, the dates are an approximation of when it was developed, but many screenshots come from much later, especially for pre-web tools.

I actually have an old Genera manual, and added some figures from it: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MD-CgzODFWzdpnYXr8bE...

Bit of a puff piece. For a contrasting view, Dan Lyons (Fake Steve Jobs) has some choice quotes on Benioff excerpted here http://www.platformonomics.com/2016/09/the-spectacle-that-…

Hi Robert! I thought (perhaps incorrectly) that Lively was largely the same programming experience as Squeak, just in the browser. Do you have any screenshots showing new programmi…

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RPX_9u01MEU-QDWU4h-90QF9XqZ...

As requested, here is a PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RPX_9u01MEU-QDWU4h-90QF9XqZ...

I think I moved the speaker notes into the body of the slides, but the doc is so swamped I can't get in to see! Perhaps I dropped some in the process. I'll look into it. If you can…

Mindstorms was pretty much a variant of Scratch. Never heard of Klik&Play - I'll check it out, thanks.

Correct, that's the slideshow version. Let me know if that isn't working and I'll post a PDF snapshot

Having this conversation on HN risks bias. Most of us have been selected for our cognitive skills. Regular people have a terrible time learning programming. See https://cacm.acm.or…