Kartik Agaram 2025-12-12 16:32:34 One advantage of textual languages: they provide a patina of respectability. If I make a rube goldberg machine that can pick from a set of rectangles, that's an esolang. If I make a rube goldberg machine that can pick from a set of words, that's a hash table and I can write papers about it.
The illusion of transmitting knowledge is a powerful thing. And Microban, for all its impact, doesn't seem to put a dent there.
William Taysom 2025-12-12 23:15:01 I remember back to the beginning of FoC, one problem that Steve Krouse identified with Scratch is that bigger kids didn't see it as real programming.
Tom Larkworthy 2025-12-14 19:35:14 Trying to improve the development ergonomics of Lopecode. Now I can have more than one code editor open at a time!
I had to create Dataflow Templating because there was a programming model limitation that was forcing me only to have a single code editor before [thread]. The switch has broken a lot of functionality which I need to repair but I like the new way much better. I will try to get to the pinning model Observable has because sometimes the code is the technical content.
