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oh yeah that makes sense! I just drop people into the space -- it's supposed to be a 2D space for video chat, including a sense of distance, i.e. there are people who are in earsho…

Thanks for posting this! So happy to see some real academic interest in these topics!

What a cool extension! I'll give it a whirl! On impact: I've been running the numbers for a tool I'm working on and the projected savings for the industry look insane! Just by shav…

Too often, "tests are required" -- but as you say it's very hard to test anything meaningful, so developers "test something" and call it a day.

Interesting, what example would come to mind?

We need to find our equivalent of a printing press! For what it's worth, possibly that won't be just one thing, but a wide array of tools?

I couldn't agree more! Why doesn't every error message have a link to a specific page with discussions, instructions, etc. Or maybe even a button you can click where the machine tr…

The question is: how do you grow up from there, in terms of expressive power? I.e. is it possible to find more middle ground between Python and Scratch?

Atlassian truly is the Harbor Freight of developer tools! I'm a bit hopeful that DX might finally start getting the love it deserves. -- For better or worse, Microsoft seems to und…

You are so right, those "build a website in 15 minutes" demos hit like a bomb back in the day!

Yes, you are right I didn't put that very well. Modal editing really has a lot of benefits, even if I personally don't go for them (am more of an Emacs guy). What I would say is th…

Oh yes, that is certainly what we do. And there's nothing wrong about that. We are definitely in the business of building tools for professionals, i.e. a bit of a learning curve is…

This looks fantastic! What a treasure trove.

Haha, I agree. Sorry.

I was wondering about this -- but how would CAD or Photoshop be more than a Context Free language? In particular, consider Feature Structure Grammars which are equivalent to CFGs a…

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Exactly this is the problem with grafting visual programming interfaces onto textual programming semantics. One of the main important reasons to do VP is to be able to inspect the …

Initially when I read the title my mind jumped to assume that you were doing actors distributed across multiple machines, i.e. one actor spread out, possibly in some fault-tolerant…

It's extremely new, see discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/clojure/3...

This is incorrect. The anthem is not Nazi, it is from a poem by Hoffman von Fallersleben, one of the early German democrats. Far from being illegal, the first two stanzas are simpl…