Re:Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe Iaso
by priprimer on Friday November 10, 2023 @12:52PM
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but I. an older hacker (but not so old that I am used to calling my self old, not yet)
are worried and irked by the choice of language: “alien magic”!? really!!??
this hints of the attitude of an user not-interested in inner workings of anythings
language does change and shift but it’s the attitude that worries me
hackers are (were!?) engineers who ask questions about how it works and why and so on…
maybe just get off my lawn!? oh wait, I am a milenial, I cannot afford a lawn to call my own. oopsie
I know for me I to see these kinds of setups (like every eMacs setup) and realize that my neuro divergence is very different than others
I freeze in awe at how much context and abstractions you have to keep in your head to just navigate and grok what’s happening. It’s like three layers of abstraction and having decades of fluency in a language and IDE/CLI.
“ After a while, they just become second nature like Vim commands do. I have been forcing myself to use this over and over again for the past few days and it's starting to become second nature.”
Ha yeah that does seem like what it would take to learn to use this.
I’ve been making computers go brrrr for 30 years and this level of coding fluency will never not confuse and impress me.
Kudos!!