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Yes, the article mentions users copy pasting snippets from their personal "library". Well, that could just be made into an actual library of functions to call.
by fhennig 7y ago
Yes, the article mentions users copy pasting snippets from their personal "library". Well, that could just be made into an actual library of functions to call.
I'm currently at uni enrolled in an AI/ML degree, and there are a lot of people with no previous exposure to programming. It's just that most people don't know that these things are possible, don't want to learn another tool (IDE) and are not interested in longevity of the code, just in the results. This shouldn't sound like me complaining, I totally understand. I think a lot of the stuff could be solved with just better tooling, but a familiarity with software development is definitely helpful.
Also a while back streamlit (https://www.streamlit.io/ https://www.streamlit.io/) was here on HN and since then I've been meaning to try it. I think this could be a good approach to bring together the best of both worlds.
- sillysaurusx 7y agomost people don't know that these things are possible, don't want to learn another tool (IDE) and are not interested in longevity of the code, just in the results. This approach is arguably more effective than wasting time trying to refactor everything into a library of functions. Programming-as-crafting needs to be more of a thing. Not everything is written to be long-lasting. Even HN ushered the ugly code into hook functions that weren't shipped with the main codebase.