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Unison: a next-generation programming platform

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Re: Unison: a next-generation programming platform

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Post by PuercoPop »

xrstf wrote: post #42

A few mockups or screenshots would have helped me immensely to understand this "next gen text-based-programming killer", that is ironically described exclusively in plaintext. In my head, ideas range from visual programming language to programmable spreadsheet, with no clear picture of even how the language looks. I'm so confused...

You see them at the author's blog https://pchiusano.github.io

He's posted screenshot's and videos about this project. He has allocated 3 months to this project to see where it goes.

Re: Unison: a next-generation programming platform

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Post by slowmovintarget »

ripter wrote: post #3

> Perhaps 70% of developer time is spent dealing with parsing, serialization, and persistence. Values are encoded to and from JSON, to and from various binary formats, and to and from various persistent data stores… over and over again. This is not my experience at all. I've spent maybe an hour or two in the last few months on parsing, serialization, and persistence. For the work I do, these are all solved problems.…

Followed by:

> These numbers are made up, of course...

Re: Unison: a next-generation programming platform

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Post by kyllo »

marcosdumay wrote: post #24
Dewie3 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The editor (or whatever it's called) promises to only allow only well-typed programs. Not just syntactically correct programs.

Eclipse, Visual Studio, and all the Haskell IDEs catch type errors on the fly and help you fix them.

Yes, but you have to finish typing the syntax first, and the IDE that is constantly parsing your code file is always going to report errors as the code goes through a broken state while you're typing. That's one thing Unison is trying to fix.

Re: Unison: a next-generation programming platform

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Post by Garlef »

pchiusano wrote: post #56

Wow, author here, was not expecting this to end up here! This project is very much in development, it's not close to a finished product and I hope I didn't give that impression. I created the site so there'd be a space other than my blog to share updates about progress and so on. If everything I wrote sounds like nonsense, check back in 6 months. I am hoping things will be much further along, and more concrete by the…

Hi There. I'm just here to get in line for a "I've been working on something similar..." comment. Nice work!

Re: Unison: a next-generation programming platform

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Post by teacup50 »

EricSu wrote: post #34
irickt wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The author posted a followup to counter the impressions of vaporware: http://unisonweb.org/2015-05-07/update.html

....which is also 8 paragraphs of fluff and trying to connect with the audience

I understand clearly what it is; perhaps it's only fluff to you because it's aimed higher than your technical reading level?
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