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> I feel like our programming tools are pretty good for programming in the small, but I suspect we're still waiting for a breakthrough for being able to actuall
by knodi 2y ago
> I feel like our programming tools are pretty good for programming in the small, but I suspect we're still waiting for a breakthrough for being able to actually make complex software reliably. (And, no, I don't just mean yet another "framework" or another language that's just C with a fancier type system or novel memory management)
Readability is for human optimization for self or for other people's posterity and code comprehension to the readers mind. We need a new way to visualize/comprehension code that doesn't involve heavy reading and the read's personal capabilities of syntax parsing/comprehension.
This is something we will likely never be able to get right with our current man machine interfaces; keyboard, mouse/touch, video and audio.
Just a thought. As always I reserve the right to be wrong.
- skydhash 2y agoReading is more than enough. What’s often lacking is usually the why? I can understand the code and what it’s doing, but I may not understand the problem (and sub problems) it’s solving . When you can find explanations for that (links to PR discussions, archives of mail threads, and forums post), it’s great. But some don’t bother or it’s somewhere in chat logs.