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Ah, youth.
Waaay in over our heads.
Since then, I’ve realised it’s been tried and is being tried an inordinate number of times and seems to usually fail for some reason or another.
Kind of a wild goose chase for some (supposed) holy grail.
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 Wait, what?
I like it, but also recoil at the thought of using it. And I think that's a "professional programmer's instinct" talking, saying that I shouldn't settle for this one large dependency that boasts about being the future and has made room for so many little batteries-included features, I should be a big boy and use the most powerful library for every task...in JavaScript, a language that was, mind, designed in a few day…
You have an embedded graph database? Why? This is just a symptom of developers general disrespect for the depth and complexity of databases. There's a reason we have so many different different databases, those differences are important and choosing the correct database can make whole reams of code you have to write disappear though the correct database's functionality. Not to mention despite the great expansion of NoSQL databases, the relational data model and associated algebra is one of the most powerful reusable abstractions for organizing information ever invented. Graph databases can do some awesome tricks but are ultimately reproducing the ad-hoc semantics of object graphs.
Same goes for anything that says "deploy over web and native at the same time!" That network hop between you and the browser is real. Every technology that has tried to shove HTTP down into the bowels of the system and pretend that you're writing local, non-networked apps has crashed and burned.
Lastly, I don't want my code to be robust. Fail-fast is good, fail at compile time is best. Robustness like this is nice for people who just want a one-off script to solve a problem but terrible for long-term maintenance of software. Large-scale anarchic systems like the internet require that level of robustness, but that's not how I want to write all of my software, I much prefer stronger contracts between components.
Ah, youth.
I don't know how old he is, but there's enough grey hair there to know he's seen his share of things.
Ah, youth.
In any event I engaged with the creator before and what I can say is the conversations are entirely one-sided, in fact some of the most I have personally experienced. Will take one or two words from your post or reply, briefly mention it and then go completely off on a tangent only concretely related to those words. I’ve never known them to become outright offended or insulted and yet are completely impervious to any feedback. The upshot is, this will greatly limit a widespread following, because not all their tastes are exactly mainstream.
This seems like the brain child of one ambitious smart person that still needs to receive feedback from the outside world.
If the page is supposed to draw attention of any fairly technical folks, it definitely needs some more thorough reasoning and argumentation to do so.