Re:Bret Victor the Future of Programming (2013) [video]
by tov_objorkin on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @09:56AM
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I wish to have the skills to explain my work as well as Bret Victor does. Editing, reverting, and committing parts of a running program feel alien to users.
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Re:Bret Victor the Future of Programming (2013) [video]
by tacon on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @11:55AM
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Isn't that part of Paul Graham's startup lore? They were running lisp web servers for their ecommerce store and while a customer was on the phone with an issue, they would patch the server live and ask the customer to reload. Customers would hang up convinced it was their personal glitch.
Re:Bret Victor the Future of Programming (2013) [video]
by tov_objorkin on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @12:13PM
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The tool uses a Forth-like language with immutable data structures and persistent memory snapshots. It also uses Clojure style meta-data and compile-time meta-programming. I have no luck convincing people that a language without curly brackets is useful.