tudorgirba

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   by tudorgirba 2y ago

   Interesting. Let me offer you a different perspective. Moldable Development is different from Literate Programming in at least two ways: - Literate Programming is focused on a single narrative. In contrast, a system can be seen in many ways
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   by tudorgirba 2y ago

   Nice point!
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   by tudorgirba 2y ago

   Ok, do you write tests? If you do, you are already employing analyses :). The interesting bit about a test is that it's inexpensive to create and you can create it within the context of your system after you know the problem. You do no
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   by tudorgirba 2y ago

   If you look closer at Studio, you might find that its frontend was based on an older version of GT :). Luke did a nice job on it and he learnt the environment by himself when it was rather crude. How you create contextual tools is secondary
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   by tudorgirba 2y ago

   Great to hear that you find Moldable Development meaningful. And it's even more interesting that you can find tools around to tackle your contextual analyses. ggplot and Grammar of Graphics are very interesting indeed. With GT we have
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   by tudorgirba 2y ago

   I definitely do not want people to marry to tools. That does not sound like a good idea not even if the tool is glamorous :). More seriously, thank you for sparring with me. GT is free and open-source. It's extensive. It comes with doc
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   by tudorgirba 2y ago

   Moldable Development is not specific to Smalltalk. We already show how it works for other languages. Some ideas are already inspiring other environments, like Clerk. In the meantime, consider GT as an extensive blueprint of what's poss
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   by tudorgirba 2y ago

   Me here. Or on Discord. Can show :) Or look at: https://book.gtoolkit.com/working-with-the-postgresql-relati... (in the environment you can load the code which comes with live documentation)
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   by tudorgirba 2y ago

   Interesting observation. The problem we address is how to understand a situation about a software system without relying on reading code. Reading code is the most expensive activity today in software engineering. We read code because we wan
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    by tudorgirba 2y ago

    Thank you for the describing the interest. You do not have to read the handbook to format the text. You can use Markdown in a text snippet :). This gives you a compressed overview: https://book.gtoolkit.com/understanding-lep
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    by tudorgirba 2y ago

    Great to hear! I would be happy to learn more about the specific need you see in your work context. Either here or on our Discord. If you are interested to learn more about kinds of problems and how it fits in the development environment, p
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    by tudorgirba 2y ago

    Thank you for giving it a try and suggestion. The first goal was to help us explore how far can the idea of contextual tools go. It helped discover what today we call Moldable Development. It is also the first extensive case study of Moldab
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    by tudorgirba 2y ago

    Nice point. Indeed, it is possible to build tools elsewhere. The question is: do you build them, and if yes, when? What we show with GT is that it is possible to build such tools for every development problem. This leads to thousands of m
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    by tudorgirba 2y ago

    Nice summary! 4. New contextual tools can be built inexpensively :)
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    by tudorgirba 2y ago

    Thank you for the suggestion. The documentation is available online at book.gtoolkit.com (linked from the menu of gtoolkit.com). Would you see ways to improve that visibility? When consumed in the environment, that book contains live snippe
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    by tudorgirba 2y ago

    I remember that guest! :)
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    by tudorgirba 2y ago

    Thank you for the suggestion. We are indeed doing that both publicly and privately. We do learn a lot from this. I very much agree that it is hard to remember the beginner's mind. I also find that a larger challenge is that there isn&#
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    by tudorgirba 2y ago

    Was this on the GT or Pharo Discord? They are not the same communities or systems :)
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    by tudorgirba 2y ago

    You raise a few points. I am not sure what you mean by "people with poor human qualities". I am particularly involved in GT and less in Pharo since many years. GT is based on Pharo, but it comes with its own environment and philos
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    by tudorgirba 2y ago

    Thanks for excitement :) A few notes: the moving from left to right allows for a dynamic exploration which is different from the typical defined exploration from a notebook. In Glamorous Toolkit we consider that both are important and compl
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    by tudorgirba 2y ago

    I am glad you find Moldable Development interesting as a concept. > in fact, I think this isn't going far enough I would be more than curious to learn more about how you see this space :)
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    by tudorgirba 2y ago

    In Glamorous Toolkit we have extensive infrastructure to interoperate with Rust. In fact, the main app is a Rust app that relies on several other Rust plugins. The Pharo Virtual Machine is used as a library :). I enjoy your comparison with
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    by tudorgirba 2y ago

    We actually have quite a number of real life use cases. For example, in one company it's being in used as the only development environment for 100+ developers. We also use it for making sense of and modernize legacy systems that people
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    by tudorgirba 2y ago

    Thanks for the links :). I'd be interested to learn more about the kinds of things you'd expect to get from using Glamorous Toolkit for gcodepreview. The way I see it, one path would be to make the rendering happen directly in GT
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    by tudorgirba 2y ago

    > I see an opportunity here using something like this to unify your entire workflows/data-from-tools/tools into a uniform system you can query to get answers without having to jump through hoops (and give up). It appears invest
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    by tudorgirba 2y ago

    Thanks. It's certainly not about the reader's intelligence. At this moment, we do not know how to explain it succinctly. So, today it requires time. We are trying a different way of explaining starting with the overall problem of
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    by tudorgirba 2y ago

    Thank you very much. This is an extremely useful input. Would you by any chance be interested to get a tour from me? At the very least you'd get to see what it is, and perhaps in the process you might find ways to explain it. If you ar
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    by tudorgirba 2y ago

    Thank you. I am not sure where to start. So, let me start with what we do not claim: intuitive. In fact, I'd be the first to say that our proposition is counter intuitive. Intuition is based on what one is used to and we propose a rath
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    by tudorgirba 2y ago

    Thank you. Reading a book is entirely voluntary. I was offering it as a suggestion for the person that had the original question and which seemed interested in learning more.
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    by tudorgirba 2y ago

    Good to know. Thanks :)