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> 1. Is Bret Victor now the Linus of cutting-edge programming environments? Linus actually implements his solutions to things that he rants about, and releases
by paulhodge 14y ago
> 1. Is Bret Victor now the Linus of cutting-edge programming environments?
Linus actually implements his solutions to things that he rants about, and releases his code, so that analogy isn't quite right. Bret gives us nice big-picture ideas and leaves the implementation for others.
I think many of the specific ideas mentioned by Bret will quickly fall apart when trying to actually implement something non-trivial. But that's okay, it's useful to have a really inspiring big-picture vision.
- enos_feedler 14y agoLight Table should be an interesting implementation to follow then. It seems to be guided by many of big-picture ideas of Bret Victor but at the same time has to somehow make money as a real product.
- rossjudson 14y agoOr you could check out his site and notice "tangle - explorable explanations made easy", which is a Javascript library that implements the very sorts of interactions he's talking about. http://worrydream.com/#!/Tangle http://worrydream.com/#!/Tangle