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I don't want to belittle anyone's work or inventions, but I think modal editors are old and outdated. They've had their time in my mind. Bret Victor gave a gre
by equalarrow 10y ago
I don't want to belittle anyone's work or inventions, but I think modal editors are old and outdated. They've had their time in my mind.
Bret Victor gave a great talk about programming and tools: https://vimeo.com/36579366 https://vimeo.com/36579366
His talks always blow me away.
- jstewartmobile 10y agoHis demo is a neat parlor trick, but when you think about it, he's really just painting with javascript instead of a paint program. Introduce any kind of higher dimensionality into his model and it breaks.
- akkartik 10y agoOn the contrary, my reaction to reading OP was, "wow, somebody brought Bret Victor's ideas to modal editors!" The goal of switching verb and object is precisely to stop drawing dead fish (http://worrydream.com/#!/StopDrawingDeadFish http://worrydream.com/#!/StopDrawingDeadFish)