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This is their example of Fizzbuzz: https://github.com/magicmouse/beads-examples/blob/master/Exa... But this is supposed to replace Excel somehow? Along with basically every other language. I can't accuse them of not being ambitious.
// this shows a persistent value FizzBuzz grid
// whatever cell you pick is remembered for a month
Is the beadslang website made in beads?
This seems like the brain child of one ambitious smart person that still needs to receive feedback from the outside world.
Also: imagine how much has someone learned from implementing all this.
Is the beadslang website made in beads?
A lot of bold claims here. As someone who's worked on a lot of Excel business tools I can tell you there's no way something like this could replace anything in the companies I've worked for.
In the illustration of the stack of things it replaces, it includes "Unix". Which is... you know... a claim one could make.
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In the illustration of the stack of things it replaces, it includes "Unix". Which is... you know... a claim one could make.
I'm sick of this kind of cynicism on HN. I'll have you know that I've already managed to replace my car with Beads.
This seems like the brain child of one ambitious smart person that still needs to receive feedback from the outside world.
We need these kind of experiments. If you learn too much about contemporary software engineering, then it is almost certain that you'll end up with a React front-end talking to a NodeJS/Java back-end hosted on Kubernetes. Which is obviously the right thing most of the time :) but the world is richer because of these super-ambitious, super-naive experiments. Also: imagine how much has someone learned from implementing…
The world isn't richer if you listen to feedback quite the opposite it makes you improve what you are making.
I agree about the learning aspect but overhyping something doesn't really pan out that well.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebol
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_(programming_language)
Reminds me a bit of Rebol [1] and its close cousin Red [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebol [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_(programming_language)