This is what I originally thought of ChromeOS should have been, a new take on a Smalltalk like system, just with JavaScript, but alas Google had other plans for it.
Why can't I write code inside my browser?
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#42why I can't write code while on a walk through the wildest national parks or strolling along the sea shore...
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#43I can write code in my browser, even without external sites: F12
Also, how can you fail to install something like NodeJS?
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#44A lot of you guys are hating on the author for not being able to figure out how to install Nodejs. Yet if you're old enough to have gotten started in the time of JavaScript in the late '90s, or QBasic in the early '90s, or systems like the BBC Micro or TRS-80 in earlier decades, you should know what the author's talking about. Everything you need to program is just there . It just works , there's no extra installatio…
That pretty much exists though. That's why Raspberry PI was invented and at the cost of $25 + a keyboard and mouse for the base model.
If you want to pick up programming as a hobby, a hobby computer exists. If you want to get more serious eventually you have to learn your tools.
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#45The whole sentiment of this article just comes off a little whiny to me. Nowadays there is so much more information available for learning how to code and set up your dev environment. There are literally coding books for kids at book stores. And StackOverflow! When I was younger, one had to search high and low on the net trying to find help using shitty dial-up service. Then, you'd end up in some IRC channel asking f…
I'm happy to be that old guy who learned programming with magazine articles(and a pirated copy of turbo Pascal. You really appreciated that hypertext help.)
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#46I am fascinated by the continued prevalence of excel in many industries. It feels as if some modern scripting language should be able to replace some aspects of the spreadsheet and work much better.
> some modern scripting language should be able to replace some aspects of the spreadsheet and work much better
To begin with, it should be a single package without dependencies, just like excel is. Not some "ecosystem" where you need to install certain versions of packages for your script to work.
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#47Am I the only one that doesn’t know how to code in a spreadsheet?
I was thinking the same. I have no problems dealing with the terminal, but man if I ever have to do more than adding numbers in a spreadsheet...
Re: Why can't I write code inside my browser?
#48Why don't you think you can? Ignoring all the coding sites and the console, VS Code is nothing more than a "Browser" that runs javascript.
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#49Just open devtools, everything is there. Maybe it could be made more visible?
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#50I'm curious if the author has heard of sites like: * https://repl.it/ * https://jsfiddle.net/ I didn't see anything like that mentioned in the article, but I think that you can easily write code inside your browser today. Also, web browsers are already extremely heavy and complicated. That complexity is convenient for end users, but it also has costs, like making it very difficult and expensive to create a new compet…
For TypeScript, there’s the TS Playground: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play