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Re:Beads: Computer language and toolchain by ElFitz on Thursday May 27, 2021 @11:10AM (#27304043)
Funnily enough; the last time I tried something like that I was 25, had barely 6 months of experience, and somehow convinced a friend I had introduced to programming not more than two months earlier.

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.

Re:Beads: Computer language and toolchain by wolverine876 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @04:04PM (#27307601)
> 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.

That describes the state of things before every innovation in history.

Re:Beads: Computer language and toolchain by daenz on Thursday May 27, 2021 @12:45PM (#27305110)
How did you convince your friend?
Re:Beads: Computer language and toolchain by ElFitz on Thursday May 27, 2021 @03:37PM (#27307215)
We had had a brush with AWS, it’s Lambdas, Step Functions, etc, as well as Zapier and Stamplay’s flow on our first project together.

We both came out of it convinced that there had to be a way to make it much easier yet still as powerful to orchestrate logic & services…

The goal was to make something we could use to drastically simplify the development of all our future endeavours, thinking we might also be able to sell it to others.

Little did we know how naive we were ^^’