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Did you build your tool with your tool? That's really the only question that matters as far as I see it. If not, why not?
by otakucode 9y ago
Did you build your tool with your tool? That's really the only question that matters as far as I see it. If not, why not?
- mcphage 9y ago> That's really the only question that matters as far as I see it. Why do you feel this question matters at all, let alone be the only question that matters?
- divs1210 9y agoThe Java compiler is written in Java, Rust compiler in Rust, Windows OS is developed on Windows PCs. Eating your own dog food, this is called.
- voxelperfect 9y agoExactly! And we are actually doing that!
- otakucode 9y agoIf it is being proposed as a new way of doing general software development, yet it could not create the system itself, then it has clear and profound limitations. Most markedly in the case of visual programming paradigms, it means they haven't solved the problems that have tripped up visual programming all along - what happens when things get complex? The approach of encapsulating things to present bundles of code as a black box is a good one, but it needs to be paired with a powerful navigation interface that allows flying down into those black boxes pretty instantly, and figuring out how you can be viewing the internals of those alongside the 'outer' code at the same time to understand how things are interacting when things go wrong.
- mcphage 9y ago> If it is being proposed as a new way of doing general software development Which it isn’t. It’s being proposed as a tool for rapid application development.
- voxelperfect 9y agoYes, we are building the tool using our tool! I am glad that at least one person got the importance of that!
- lozenge 9y agoYou can't build a BPM using a BPM, however there is a time and place for a BPM.