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Reminds me of this great Gary Bernhardt talk https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-wor
by srpablo 9y ago
Reminds me of this great Gary Bernhardt talk https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world
This almost certainly won't catch on because inertia is very hard to overcome, but how amazing would it be to have computers do more of the heavy lifting for us?
(this is guided by my reaction to the product, where I saw the following:
* Syntax is a detail, you choose one you like without altering the semantics! It's a view layer.
* Static types (present in many other languages, less of a gamechanger)
* Analysis of dependencies of and users of code at-a-glance.
* in-IDE integration with social element of it
These were what struck me as the most novel bits, but I might have missed others)