tudorgirba

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   by tudorgirba 6y ago

   This is one succinct summary of what Glamorous Toolkit is!
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   by tudorgirba 6y ago

   Indeed. You are raising an important point. When you do not have a hypothesis, the first thing you want to do is get one :). It's like in research: the greatest problem you can have is not having a problem. Now, how do you get a hypoth
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   by tudorgirba 6y ago

   Indeed. Manually drawn pictures should only be acceptable for depicting future intent, but not for depicting the existing system. With Glamorous Toolkit we want you to build your own environment specialized for your own system showing what
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   by tudorgirba 6y ago

   Well, the good thing is that now you have a practical platform to not wait for everyone else :).
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   by tudorgirba 6y ago

   I am curious what happens in the rest of the 2% :).
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   by tudorgirba 6y ago

   Thank you for the kind words. It should also be said that Glamorous Toolkit works for other technologies, too.
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   by tudorgirba 6y ago

   Thanks for voicing your concerns. The parallel to Emacs is quite on point. Emacs was a great for text, but it's about time to outgrow that medium. Indeed, Glamorous Toolkit is a Smalltalk system, but the target is for it to work with a
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   by tudorgirba 6y ago

   Thanks for your thoughts. The post explicitly says that assessment (comprehension with the purpose of making a decision about a situation around a system) is not reading. However, it does says that people currently conflate the two because
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   by tudorgirba 6y ago

   Well, we just built that platform and we made it free and open-source. Take a look at gtoolkit.com. And you are right in saying that it can provide a huge competitive advantage. The only difference is that the tooling does not give you mean
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    by tudorgirba 6y ago

    >But why literate programming isn't more popular is beyond me. One issue with literate programming is that it advertised a single narrative for code. Only code is data, and there are always many narratives about data. This change mi
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    by tudorgirba 6y ago

    Yep. It can be directly used in several scenarios for systems built in all sorts of technologies. Join the conversation :).
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    by tudorgirba 6y ago

    I am not saying we should be apologetic about it at all. However, I am saying we can improve the effectiveness of the time we spend by an order of magnitude without much effort. We just need to want it. Interestingly, I also observed that s
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    by tudorgirba 6y ago

    That is an interesting take. In fact, I argue that people should always choose a technology by how easy it is to figure a problem out two years into development. If you find Pry useful, I'd be curious what you think about Glamorous Too
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    by tudorgirba 6y ago

    What is typically considered an acceptable learning cost / duration in your experience? I am not asking because I do not agree that there is a learning curve (we call it assessment), I am asking because I am curious what people expect.
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    by tudorgirba 6y ago

    This is quite interesting. I think we first have to talk about it at all. Doing that, we can learn how to optimize this part of the work quite significantly. But, would you like to detail what specifically you find hard?
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    by tudorgirba 6y ago

    :) That is intriguing. What do you mean?
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    by tudorgirba 6y ago

    What exactly would you put time into? And in what way do you see Rust having any meaningful influence on how one can figure a system out?
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    by tudorgirba 6y ago

    Indeed they do!
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    Glamorous Toolkit is now beta(blog.feenk.com)

    4 points by tudorgirba 6y ago|0 comments
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    by tudorgirba 6y ago

    Indeed, GT comes with an extensive support for various analyses.
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    by tudorgirba 6y ago

    These are interesting questions. Would you like to detail them? GT is a development environment. It currently has full support for Pharo code. However, it is already possible to analyze systems written in other languages. Is this the direct
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    by tudorgirba 6y ago

    Indeed, it is built in Pharo. However, the UI is designed as a language made of visual and interactive operators that can be programmed and combined in many ways live. This enables a new kind of programming we call moldable development thro
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    by tudorgirba 6y ago

    Thanks for the kind words. May I ask what specifically you find interesting about Glamorous Toolkit?