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> It is all a matter of tooling. I think the point of the article is that tooling can only get you so far. The abstraction they attempt to provide is leaky if
by andybak 6y ago
> It is all a matter of tooling.
I think the point of the article is that tooling can only get you so far. The abstraction they attempt to provide is leaky if the support for this style of development isn't firmly designed into the entire system.
- pjmlp 6y agoYeah, but in that regard developer culture is what matters. I have seen very few people actually using these kind of workflows back when Smalltalk and Lisp were more relevant (I used Smalltalk/V back then). It is like using gdb, many don't go beyond step, next, print, run, breakpoint and discover how powerful it actually is (same applies to other debuggers).
- mikelevins 6y agoI am indeed claiming that tooling only gets you so far, if you don't have good support designed into the runtime. I take you at your word that you didn't use the sorts of workflows I've described, but I did, and I still do, to the extent that I can, and it was common place among, for example, the programmers working on the bauhaus OS or the ones working on the SK8 development environment. We kept images around as a matter of course for various purposes, for example.