Shubhadeep Roychowdhury 2020-12-20 23:47:35 Jack Rusher ๐ฐ๏ธ 2020-12-18 21:01:39 Jack Rusher 2020-12-21 09:37:21 Needing GC to implement scheme properly is one of the reasons I've long preferred to start by building a Forth. For my taste, it provides a similar level of interactive joy in a much more machine-sympathetic form. ๐
Kartik Agaram 2020-12-21 18:08:32 Sometime in the last week it occurred to me that building something vaguely Forth-like as the highest level of the Mu stack probably seems like a perversion ๐
Kartik Agaram 2020-12-24 02:49:01 This is really good: https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/that-which-is-unique-breaks
I've long said/ranted that we programmers pretend we're an industry when we're really just a cottage industry. Behind this sentiment was the unspoken assumption that industrialization may one day happen, and that at the appropriate time it would be good. But now I wonder if it's even a desirable goal to aim for. Does the ability to build at scale really need to be practiced at scale? Perhaps certain things are harmed by scale.
Konrad Hinsen 2020-12-25 10:14:16 Nice essay on craft vs. industry. Software is in a particular place, because on one hand is undergoing some industrialization itself, whereas on the other hand it is enabling a transition towards cheap production of unique things (e.g. the Maker movement). Which, however, cannot be mended either when they break, so it's not quite a return to craft.
Mariano Guerra 2020-12-24 10:10:32 Mariano Guerra 2020-12-24 10:12:48
It's the brutal grind of detangling stupid problems that should never have existed, repeatedly, with your eyes taped closed.