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This is an interesting, worthwhile project, but the headline, "text-based languages are so 20th century," struck me as naively arrogant. There are a TON of int
by cs702 10y ago
This is an interesting, worthwhile project, but the headline, "text-based languages are so 20th century," struck me as naively arrogant.
There are a TON of interesting '21st century' things being done with the "text-based languages" this website dismisses.
BTW, that website is so 20th century.
- white-flame 10y agoAnd to be honest, the visual programming language fad for "actual" use was so 20th century as well. Visual programming has found a bit of a home with "programming for non-programmers" around kids'/intro stuff and some game tools.
- mpbm 10y agoI'm working on something similar and I agree with him. Writing is literally stone-age technology. It's adequate for many things, but it's only got one feature. We need something with more dimensions. There were a lot of attempts at touch-based interfaces before someone finally got it right and everyone went "Oh, that's how that's supposed to work."