Dynamicland as definite optimism
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Replying to @rsnous
do you know of any definite optimist projects that offer alternative concrete visions on the future of computation than Dynamicland?
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Replying to @nicklovescode @rsnous
- Systems programming: Rust. A lot of positivity in the community for a future of safer, resilient software. - Interactive programming: Jupyter/Observable notebooks. Excitement from scientists, analysts, educators.
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There are some niche things that are very young still. New system being built by creating of Kdb, for instance. Too many things are being built by PL folks with good intentions but very limited empathy for users, who face an enormous complexity surface nowadays.
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Replying to @pwang @wcrichton and
Too many people trying to supplant Python or replace C. Not enough working on Visicalc.
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IMO there's an unfortunate impulse to take stuff end users actually like (Excel, R, …) and bring it 'closer to real programming': add a git-like VCS, abstraction, verification, whatever. think we should have a healthy respect for the successes of those systems!
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