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Decker is amazing. I've started a set of tutorials (decks + videos) as a byproduct of trying to teach my 8-year old daughter to program with it. https://itch.io/t/6632495/decker-pr…

Not even remotely. it's just plain vanilla C, with dense formatting. Whitney makes extensive use of macros to completely change the language.

Yes to pretty much all of the above. It's an extremely terse array programming language in the APL family, but with ASCII primitives and strong distributed programming / IPC suppor…

Perhaps you would enjoy https://internet-janitor.itch.io/decker

He has done this many times on his YouTube channel! For an example, this guest was particularly clever and charming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJP2zkl_44o J/k. It's me. I'm t…

For one: https://internet-janitor.itch.io/decker It even looks a bit like Hypercard, by default (it's lo-fi, but there are colors under the hood).

Location: NY Remote: Strongly preferred Willing to Relocate: Probably not Technologies: python, js, kdb/k/j/apl, pascal, rust, go, etc. Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tangents…

You have unlocked: Irony!!

Oh. I had hoped this was about https://ryelang.org/ .

This seems like an awful lot of worrying about a problem that doesn't actually exist.

Yes but in whatever language you're imagining here, a "list" probably isn't the kind of list that lisp uses (linked lists of cons cells).

I'm making a platform for programming challenges, and this is one where a Tetris clone. To use the test server and get the full experience, you need to sign in with a google accoun…

> Even though you aren’t writing the 3P code yourself, by including it in your project you are committed to understanding it—and refreshing that understanding if you want to upgrad…

Is this something you can actually configure on modern processors, or is it more hypothetical advice for future chip makers?

Oh, interesting! I heard other array programmers talking about jq, and (having not seen your website) went off to study the json transformation language, which is also kind of cool…

Nice to see this getting some attention again. I hope some people venture out to learn about the actual J language: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Guides/GettingStarted For what i…

Good point. I did now. Both models stuck with their second answer. (I see now I didn't know how to share ChatGPT links properly. Updating the links now...)

I tested their first example in ChatGPT 4. Interestingly, it gives the correct answer on the first try: https://chat.openai.com/share/d86fe16a-9dfd-4753-8eaf-6d2948096ea3 I then ga…

I am such a person! I make J videos at http://youtube.com/@tangentstorm (many of them are recordings of live-coding on a single J application), work professionally in another array…

This reminds me of the association between tetanus and rusty nails. Why would rust make the presence of bacteria more likely? Is it a food source? No, tetanus on a rusty nail was j…

yes, you are the only one. that's part of what makes you special! [j/k. i like it too, but i'm sure you're still special. :D]

I was able to get ChatGPT 4 to produce a working websocket server in rust fairly quickly I know rust but had no experience with the networking crates or async runtimes. Getting it …

I've had the pleasure of alpha-testing several builds of lil and decker. It's nice to see that it's out in the wild now. Some of the little applications I made in an hour or two ea…

I don't know if this counts as major, but I work on a presentation tool written with J and Godot. It's a "time travelling" REPL recorder built atop a console widget library. The Go…

Does trying to build a Youtube channel around J count as professional? I've been livestreaming a presentation tool / time-travelling REPL for J for a few months now: https://github…