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Discussion from a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18178230 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18178230 It's not based just on text
by mkl 7y ago
Discussion from a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18178230 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18178230
It's not based just on text code, but on interactive manipulation as well, so it's not like e.g. TikZ which can be kept in the document source and version controlled, etc.
- maxkrieger 7y agoThis is true but only at present. An analogy would be the weights of pretrained machine learning models. They're still serializable, though it's true they're less semantically trackable than a well-written TikZ snippet (which, by the way, I haven't seen many of in practice!)