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I think of the Turing test as one of the starting lines, along with image recognition ("a summer break project for a group of grad students" resisted being solved for decades). It …

> doesn’t seem like there is much benefit at that point That depends on the problem you're trying to solve. I found it to be of great benefit when trying to overcome "writer block"…

Emacs/Elisp has the rx library: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Rx... You get s-exp-based regex syntax (example for C-style block comments; there are shor…

I would recommend trying something like PyParsing[1] instead. Libraries like this allow you to compose the parser from language-level entities (object and functions, on top of rege…

While true in principle, writing grammars in regexes is problematic in practice: the syntax for the more advanced features (named submatches, lookahead, backreferences, etc.) is pr…

> But they generate objectively bad text. By default, yes. That's exactly the same for code: by default, even with planning and patient nudging towards best practices, you get pass…

10x or 60x of very little is still not much. "Working programmers" unable to write FizzBuzz exist. 10x or 60x of a negative value is a 10-60x bigger problem than that initial negat…

> Some times the true nature of the problem is revealed while implementing it and by deferring everything to an LLM you spend days throwing tokens at the wrong thing. If you look a…

GToolkit[1] - a Smalltalk environment that's based on Pharo but replaces the UI framework and some other parts of the stack. It uses Rust through FFI to interface with and bundle n…

The only language with Fexprs that I used was Io. In Io, unevaluated code is represented as a tree of Message nodes, and for each call, an activation record is instantiated and pro…

Good point. I was thinking about meta-interpreters (and it's still possible I misunderstood or misremembered how they work!), but you're right; I should have at least been more pre…

I don't think that moving the evaluation to compile time is something you can just ignore when discussing macros. It's an important differentiator between macros and Fexprs[1]. IME…

If your language has macros, you don't need to wait for it to gain async/await (and it was quite a wait even in Python and JS, while Java got its virtual threads very recently); yo…

IIRC, the criticism is of syntax-rules and syntax-case kind of macros in Scheme; I don't recall (happy to be proved wrong) LoL directly mentioning syntax-parse that's specific to R…

On the contrary, CLI, TUI, and desktop GUI apps are basically the only kinds of apps that benefit from CL and can live with its shortcomings. The startup time of a tool written in …

I suspect it's a bit like tree-shaking/dead-code elimination in an untyped, dynamic language. You can probably delete a lot of things, but each deletion has a chance to break (or s…

> western colonies fared much better than eastern ones. Sure, Iraq and Afghanistan definitely benefited a lot from being bombed, occupied, and then handed over to even worse tyrant…

> In that regard Lepiter (and GT by extension) seems immensely powerful Yes - I think this all comes from the insistence on using a single rendering tree for everything displayed o…

> you already think we are odious I had to look up the word to double-check as a non-native English speaker. A quick definition I'm working with is "Arousing or meriting strong dis…

I might be wrong - I investigated Pike just once, a long time ago - but I think Pike dropped a lot of the "liveness" that LPC provided (ie. reloading objects from a (changed) sourc…

Almost no languages are built for the environment where all code and values must be live and persistent and accessible to many people at once. Sandboxing and permissions need to be…

Roguelikes have had 2D UIs since the start (just rendered with characters), while a MUD with a 2D interface is not a MUD but an MMORPG. There's a bit of a middle ground in rich MUD…

> Modern MUDs and similar will just include a mature script language, like LUA Not necessarily. The persistent, live nature of some types of MUD programming (LPMUDs, MOOs) is uniqu…

EDIT: Argh, I misunderstood your point: you'd like to use GT as an IDE for non-Smalltalk code, right? I took "LSP integration" to mean "GT providing LSP server implementation", whi…