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by tudorgirba 2y ago
I think it was not useful if it was not understandable. Thanks again for the feedback :).
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by tudorgirba 2y ago
Nice point! The graphical part is one source of difference, but there others as well. For example, chapter 4 in the Rewilding Software Engineering that Simon Wardley and I are writing compares what we call defined explorations (as seen in J
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by tudorgirba 2y ago
Thanks for the question. You are not supposed to "run" the tool for your program. You start with a question about your program and then build a tool that shows it. Take a look here at an example of an explanation of a algorithm wr
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by tudorgirba 2y ago
Nice question. We were certainly aware of Intentional Programming. And indeed, Glamorous Toolkit does have a language workbench underneath with which we can create editing experiences for various technologies. But we started from the "
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by tudorgirba 2y ago
Thank you for the feedback. Our latest attempt to explain why Glamorous Toolkit exists comes in a book I am writing with Simon Wardley in the open about Moldable Development. See it here: https://medium.com/feenk/rewild
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by tudorgirba 2y ago
Well said! In fact, there is already LLM integration including programmable chats with the possibility of contextualizing the interface of each message in the chat :)
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by tudorgirba 2y ago
Glamorous Toolkit only claims it can help with making systems explainable. Making writing in plain English explainable is out of scope :))
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by tudorgirba 2y ago
In a way. It does have a notebook component, but that's just one piece. It's the sum of all pieces that make it a different environment. From our point of view, the interesting bit is that we show that we can use the idea of conte
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by tudorgirba 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback. A question: Why would you say that the Download button is mysterious? I think I might have missed the issue. Still we now changed the "Download" button to "Get started" that links to a page with
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by tudorgirba 2y ago
Oh, I did not know there was a way to downvote here, actually. I thought you could only upvote. Thank you for the kind clarification. Indeed, it describes my intent quite well. Thank you for taking the time to describe how it is perceived f
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by tudorgirba 2y ago
That's exactly it. We chose Smalltalk because we could not have discovered the space (what we now call Moldable Development) within the constraints we had.
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by tudorgirba 2y ago
My "why not" had a smiley next to it because it was meant as a joke. I am not sure what you mean by downvoting, but I did not mean to discourage your curiosity. I am sorry if it came out like that. p.s. I learnt in the meantime th
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by tudorgirba 2y ago
Thank you for the feedback! It is certainly not too harsh :) The problem is that for any given problem, there might be some solution out there that does something like it. Except that there is no solution anywhere in which you can do all of
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by tudorgirba 2y ago
Interesting question. The primary goal of Glamorous Toolkit is not to be a technology for expressing systems in. Its purpose is to be an environment with which to work with systems written in various technologies. The differentiator to othe
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by tudorgirba 2y ago
Thank you for the feedback. We removed the image and pushed the video up. Is this better?
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by tudorgirba 2y ago
Why not? :) The goal was to explore the idea of contextualizing our tools for each development. It is built in Smalltalk (and Rust underneath) because Smalltalk already has the possibility of a live environment that can be changed from with
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by tudorgirba 2y ago
Thank you for the interest and for taking the time to explore the environment! There are quite a number of videos and explanations now, but we are still struggling to package them in a way that seems more approachable. We would need help wi
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by tudorgirba 2y ago
Over the last couple of years we added a reasonably extensive infrastructure for working with Python from within GT. You can define contextual inspector views both in GT and in Python for live Python objects, for example. There is also a de
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by tudorgirba 2y ago
Thank you for the comments! Moldable Development is different from programming in Smalltalk. It's not a way of advertising Smalltalk, it's a new way of programming :) Moose indeed came from academia and was focused on various kind
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by tudorgirba 2y ago
Thank you for taking the time. There is certainly similarity with notebooks. However, the notebook is only a part. For example, the notebooks are part of a knowledge base. They are multi-language. But the more interesting bit comes from how
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Simon Wardley and Tudor Girba Chat about Moldable Development [video](youtube.com)
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by tudorgirba 2y ago
Moldable Development is a way of programming through custom tools built for each development problem. This can easily mean thousands of tools ... per system. What?! Take a look to see why and how this addresses the largest problem in softwa
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by tudorgirba 3y ago
Glad to hear it. Would you like to tell us more about what you found interesting (either here or on our Discord)? I am asking because that's my favorite public use case so far :).
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by tudorgirba 3y ago
Great to hear Mark!
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by tudorgirba 3y ago
It's meant as an environment in which developers can build tools for every single development problem they have. Literally. I know it can sound crazy, but that's what it is for. The claim is that this practice leads to a new way o
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by tudorgirba 3y ago
There is a YouTube channel with a number of videos at different levels of detail.
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by tudorgirba 3y ago
Hmm, it should work just by downloading the ready made distribution in most systems without any other prerequisites. Would you like to detail what you tried? And what do you mean by 404?
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by tudorgirba 3y ago
How would you improve on this first paragraph? "Glamorous Toolkit (GT) is the Moldable Development Environment. Version 1.0 embodies more than 6 years of development and is the result of some 14 years of research. Our goal is to make s
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by tudorgirba 3y ago
Can you maybe share a few details about what you find annoying about the style of writing? I'd love to improve my writing.
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by tudorgirba 3y ago
The article was not meant to describe everything in GT. There is a whole book delivered in the environment to cover this. You can also see it here: book.gtoolkit.com. In the second half of the article it says that those are just examples of

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