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Hi, I would like to chime in here on your comment on the marketing speak of the Beads project. I know the author of Beads, and was happy that he gave me a shout

Hi, I would like to chime in here on your comment on the marketing speak of the Beads project. I know the author of Beads, and was happy that he gave me a shoutout for my own project, Visual Javascript. Anyway, I have been following this new coding space for a while and I was also the initial angel investor for a project called Eve (the follow up for Light Table) which was an excellent project made by someone called Chris Granger (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12817468 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12817468). Anyway, I agree that the presentation of the Beads language could be improved massively, but the Beads language itself has some very interesting features, so should not be ignored. I think reading through all the comments on this hacker news thread it would be very useful to know what parts of Beads actually interest readers, and how they would present/market Beads themselves if it was their own project. This could be very constructive. For me personally it is the time travelling debugger that it interesting in Beads. What is it about Beads that you find interesting?

jasonshaev 5y ago
I am vaguely familiar with Light Table and Eve (coincidentally my college roommate grew up with Chris but I don't know him personally). It's been awhile but my recollection is Light Table/Eve had a more targeted set of selling points -- a killer IDE with some slick features I hadn't seen before and then a new language designed to be written as prose. Regarding Beads: time travel is definitely a cool feature. Most languages have some kind of step debugger but the experience can often be improved. Having a built in graph DB could be an interesting selling point too. I'd love to see a quick example of what having a graph DB built into the language enables. For instance, this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27315018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27315018 cites a Neo4j demo that, in a few lines of code, shows me something their product does "better" than SQL. I would love to see, on the Beads front page, a small (5 lines max?) code blurb that shows me something Beads can do harder, better, faster, stronger (or whatever ;) ) than other languages. I don't quite know what that is, but I imagine the author has some thoughts :). Happy to connect more if you'd like.
- zubairq 5y ago
  Sure, connect with me. You can find my details online.

jasonshaev 5y ago

I am vaguely familiar with Light Table and Eve (coincidentally my college roommate grew up with Chris but I don't know him personally). It's been awhile but my recollection is Light Table/Eve had a more targeted set of selling points -- a killer IDE with some slick features I hadn't seen before and then a new language designed to be written as prose. Regarding Beads: time travel is definitely a cool feature. Most languages have some kind of step debugger but the experience can often be improved. Having a built in graph DB could be an interesting selling point too. I'd love to see a quick example of what having a graph DB built into the language enables. For instance, this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27315018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27315018 cites a Neo4j demo that, in a few lines of code, shows me something their product does "better" than SQL. I would love to see, on the Beads front page, a small (5 lines max?) code blurb that shows me something Beads can do harder, better, faster, stronger (or whatever ;) ) than other languages. I don't quite know what that is, but I imagine the author has some thoughts :). Happy to connect more if you'd like.

zubairq 5y ago
Sure, connect with me. You can find my details online.