Brendan Zabarauskas on Twitter: "@pigworker Like, I’d like a fancy interactive literal, but it seems like bad UX to explode and dump out an s-expression if somebody upstream updates the underlying library, and there’s no way to help migrate. 🤔" / Twitter

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Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

Feb 24, 2020

Yeah, I’ve been recently pondering the implications of type directed metaprogramming + structured editing, and it makes my head explode! No idea how to render a program once your types break 😬

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Brendan Zabarauskas

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Like, I’d like a fancy interactive literal, but it seems like bad UX to explode and dump out an s-expression if somebody upstream updates the underlying library, and there’s no way to help migrate. 🤔

11:08 PM · Feb 24, 2020Twitter for iPhone

David Thrane Christiansen

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and

Have you seen

et al's work on Hazel? They are exploring just that question.

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Yeah, we've been thinking about interactive literals. The question of what to do when a definition changes out is an interesting one. Our solution is to put it in an "invalid state" hole, but that doesn't actually help you migrate the state (you can only "reset" at that point).

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