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I understand it's something beyond a language. But surely it has to make some assumptions about the stack it relies on? If such a tool existed but required you
by akkartik 7y ago
I understand it's something beyond a language. But surely it has to make some assumptions about the stack it relies on? If such a tool existed but required you to switch to a whole new language, would that be acceptable? What if you had to switch to a whole new programming model? What if you couldn't benefit from any of the software written by others in mainstream platforms?
In any case, I think you'll enjoy hanging out at https://futureofcoding.org/slack-readme https://futureofcoding.org/slack-readme where people often chat about different parts of this (huge) open problem. I do.
- jnbiche 7y agoCool group. I'm already enjoying the podcasts (and kudos for having transcripts available, as well).
- pezo1919 7y agoYes sure! I did not mean the tool should exist independently, I meant some kind of extra IDE "layer" beside a "regular"/widespread (C,Java,C#) compiler/language. But ofc there is no such thing like "regular" compiler/language That group seems really cool! Thanks!
- akkartik 7y agoOk, to answer your question I don't think mainstream languages like C/Java/C# will ever gain the tools to do what you want. You have to start from scratch. (Like many others in that group, I'm trying to start from scratch: https://github.com/akkartik/mu/blob/master/subx/Readme.md https://github.com/akkartik/mu/blob/master/subx/Readme.md. My focus isn't directly on the tools you describe. But hopefully it'll one day be closer to the main trunk of evolution rather than the dead end the current mainstream seems to be. And it will support a more flexible software stack that can adopt such tools.)
- stevekrouse 7y agoThanks for pointer!