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Re:Please Let the Internet Die. It's Time to Start Over on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:33AM (#50339378)
I think that's fair. I have a project to rebuild the "web" and have to catch when I get it wrong. We already have multiple webs and I don't believe a better one is that hard to get to.
Re:EYG: A Programming Language for Humans on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @03:07AM (#49080386)
I have a few weird syntax I've worked on in the past so this is definitely possible. Currently only the textual representation and structural editor are in the repo. The most different I have done is a layout where the AST was presented like a file tree.

apply ├── int_negate └── 5

Re:EYG: A Programming Language for Humans on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @03:04AM (#49080362)
I believe this was a separation that existed in the role of programmer (logic cognition) from coder (details) in the early days of computing. I previously read a good post about this but can't find it now.
Re:EYG: A Programming Language for Humans on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @03:01AM (#49080341)
Bringing a sound and totally inferred type system, including of all effects. Is the main dimension. It also aims to improve the friction around managing dependencies.
Re:EYG: A Programming Language for Humans on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @03:01AM (#49080335)
Thank you. I have some new editor features I hope to share once the package management is improved.
Re:EYG: A Programming Language for Humans on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @03:00AM (#49080324)
I'm not sure "normies" is the right grouping. I think that is too broad some people are artists and some people just aren't that curious to try. I think a better group to target is "makers" I think that's anyone with enough ambition to at least try and fix a plug or change a lightbulb.
Re:EYG: A Programming Language for Humans on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @02:58AM (#49080313)
I think this is a point I should make more clearly. And there are more examples of programmable environments. Excel being one.
Re:Why Your Daily Standup Notes Are Useless on Monday July 20, 2026 @08:12AM (#48977690)
To me stuff slipping through the cracks is a feature not a bug
Re: on Friday July 17, 2026 @03:39AM (#48944386)
I'm enjoying the resurrection of all these concepts. I hear it explained as agents work best with feedback/constraints, my confusion is I believe people do as well so why were they not so popular before. Either way it's nice to see it happening and I'm very bullish on Gleam continuing to be a good choice.
But fair?
I think that friction of feedback and friction of construction are two different things. Having lots of tokens to build things doesn't mean you have more feedback. I'm a bun user I like it. I can't really comment from my use on what the Zig vs Rust rewrite means to me.
Not heard sunk cost fallacy described as a feature before. Interesting idea.

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