OK so I think it's time to stop and note I'm installing Julia to learn about what decisions I want to make designing my own language.
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The experience of “getting started” is so important for a niche lang. Love what Elm does (uses interactive in-browser demos)
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I don't intend to use this language, I just want to evaluate it! iJulia is just so I can get a prompt to generate images
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Right right but imagine if you were a prospective user of Emily and this was what it was like to get started with Emily.
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"getting started" was all I needed. At this point I think it would have been faster if they'd let me download a VM image
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Sorry I'm being slow to respond to tweets because all these pkg mgrs invoking gcc has swapped absolutely everything out
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… oh geez wait no. Gcc is *still running*. Homebrew has been building cmake in the background this whole time D: