Thoughts On Five Years of Emerging Languages from @al3x: https://al3x.net/2014/09/16/thoughts-on-five-years-of-emerging-languages.html ….
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Replying to @patrickc
He mentions increased focus on tooling; my prediction is a resurgence to the point where languages come with development environments again.
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Replying to @avibryant
@patrickc 10 years ago it didn't bother me to release open source code in formats specific to Smalltalk. Now it would feel half-published.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @avibryant
@avibryant I think they may be somewhat orthogonal. E.g. the iOS development ecosystem is highly tooled yet coexists nicely with GitHub.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @patrickc
@avibryant But, yeah, challenging where the standard collaboration workflow isn't mediated with typical VCS/flat-file representations.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@patrickc@avibryant github could track a dir of multimethods, each in its own file, just fine. Why hasn't smalltalk/CLOS gone that way?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@edelwax @patrickc some Smalltalk systems have done exactly this, but GitHub's browsing and code review tools are not well optimized for it.
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