10. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is true -- but the effects are far more pronounced for programming languages than for spoken languages. The language you write code in ends up shaping huge parts of you worldview even when you're not programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity …
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20. The folks working on Visual Programming Languages, Low Code, or No Code, to try to make programming more accessible to people are... I dunno, focused on not the best goal.. Rather than make it easier to do what you can do with JS, better goal is to make a better excel.
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21. Eve started in the right direction: combine the database, a UI for human I/O, and a nice declarative language showed lots of promise @ 1st https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT2CMS0MxJ0 … you could tell they went off the rails when the demo was how to build Flappy Bird.https://futureofcoding.org/essays/eve/
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22. 10.7 Million Javascript developers (most popular " programming language") 500-750 Million people use Excel (actual most popular programming language + env) Why? Excel lets you treat you thoughts as data. Easy to get started, can ALWAYS upskill to solve harder problemspic.twitter.com/QwAoiKoKEX
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23. Weaknesses of Excel Really only works for quantitative thoughts But there are all sorts of relationships between qualitative thoughts, and algorithms you can run on them We need a programming language for meta-cognition, + db + io ideas herehttps://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1205809314612404229?s=20 …
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24. Advances in programming languages reduce incidental complexity -- the complexity of talking with machines that doesn't relate to problems you're trying to solve. Big advances: garbage collection/not having to worry about memory management, performant immutable datastructures
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25. Big ideas that shape whole languages have made their way into Clojure through libraries The paper Communicating Sequential Processes inspired the creation of Golang (Go) -- very popular at google. In Clojure, core.async library gives you all that!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drmNlZVkUeE …
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26. Bret Victor is right about direct manipulation generally. Specifically: CSS is a flaming pile of garbage. Messing with margins and padding to try to get a layout to look the way you want is 100% incidental complexity.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII&feature=youtu.be&t=326 …
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27. Just parroting his quote from above talk "So much of creativity is discovery, and you can't discover anything if you can't see what you're doing" Similarly, programming languages should not only be conceived of as text or symbol based see http://worrydream.com/KillMath/
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28. Getting beyond abstract symbols does not mean getting beyond abstract ideas. The power of programming languages (and why you may want to learn them, even if not intent on building software) is that they let you get you hands dirty with building and using ur own abstractions.
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29. Cheating and linking an old threadhttps://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1134173307878629376 …
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30. Datalog is a much better query language than SQL, and will be more widely used than SQL in 2050 But might be only if you count people using natural language datalog, which will go mainstream in next 10 years https://web.archive.org/web/20181102114644/http://alexwarth.com/projects/nl-datalog/ …
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31. Urbit is an interesting project, but won't actually take off unless/until someone writes an X -> Hoon or X -> Arvo or X -> "whatever" compiler because no one actually wants to think in Yarvis' pig latin.
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32. Hosted languages that provide nicer abstractions over the libraries from their host language have a huge huge advantage over new languages starting from scratch. The ability to work with libraries from an existing/broader ecosystem is damn near table stakes for a new lang
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33. The world is a worse place because MIT switched from teaching LISP in the intro CS courses to teaching Python.
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34. If you haven't learned a programming language for a reason other than A) It was a assigned to you in school B) You thought it would make you money Then I doubt your a) curiosity b) open-mindedness and as a result c) competency as a engineer
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35. There are two problems for programming languages to solve 1) Performance on machines 2) Usefulness as a tool for thought Right now those are complected -- Intentional Software was doing something interesting toward separating those two out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_Software …
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36. **Technical people** are just people who "try to understand" Killing conversations with "I'm not technical" is a dangerous practice that will hurt you (and those around you) in the long run.https://roamresearch.com/#/v8/help/page/uP3mR1Xef …
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39. Contracts and gradual typing > strong types https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTl7Jn_kmio …
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40. Many people with 10 years of experience in software engineering haven't actually grown or learned much in that time. They've done the same first year 10 times on repeat. Polyglots generally avoid falling into this pattern.
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41. Reagent (A Clojurescript wrapper around React) is way easier to read, write, and maintain than vanilla react.
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42. Dan Abramov has said that Redux is not a javascript clone of Re-frame (the CLJS framework for writing SPAs in react), it is just that both were inspired by elm and arrived at similar pattern... But even so... Re-frame was first and still much better in almost every way
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43. The Re-frame documentation is most informative/entertaining read-me on githubhttps://github.com/day8/re-frame/blob/master/README.md …
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44. Clojurescript is an EXCELLENT choice for consumer or SaaS internet startups. If you are starting a new company and can afford it, you should spend invest a few months in learning it first and building in it vs your normal stack, will pay huge dividends over time.
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45. A great engineer can learn Clojure well enough to be productive in under a month.
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46. Setup for react development (Webpack/Babel/100 other tooling things) was a dumpster fire in 2015. It's probably still bad.
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47. Create-React-App and Gatsbyjs probably have made setup for Javascript projects much better. Still probably not as easy to use or as powerful as shadow-cljs.
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49. VScode is a typescript IDE, is probably pretty magical, and I am likely missing some cool sources of tools for thought inspiration by not playing in that ecosystem.
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