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SHOW HN2013
134points
55comments
#155of 1,739 in 2013
Top 9%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
2 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Idea: 1 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Looking forward to type inference talk.
From 1 comment
Can't wait!
untothebreach on HN
Objections
Unclear whether it scales to large enterprise applications.
From 1 comment
Loving that concept of the @ symbol. Sadly I don't see that scaling to enterprise large applications, where you have little clues about what's calling your library with what…
keyle on HN
Live demos seem limited to small projects.
From 1 comment
All these live demo applications (like http://livecoding.io/) are interesting and may be useful for teaching the basics of a language, but I don't see them being used at anything…
granttimmerman on HN
Continuous testing with unit tests already gives similar feedback.
From 1 comment
This is sort of possible with any language, in the sense of unit testing. You can even setup a file watcher to run your unit tests automatically whenever the code changes, and…
joshribakoff on HN
Requests
Port to JavaScript for a public prototype.
From 1 comment
Any language can support edit and continue, its more a matter of your debugger than programming model. Live programming goes beyond edit and continue in that your program…
seanmcdirmid on HN
Questions
Isn't this already achieved with a REPL?
From 1 comment
Isn't this already achieved with a REPL? I mean other than GUI programming, which something like this would be useful in the same spirit as a REPL.
adamwk on HN
Alternatives named
REPL
From 2 comments
Isn't this already achieved with a REPL? I mean other than GUI programming, which something like this would be useful in the same spirit as a REPL.
adamwk on HNI edit and re-edit code in my vim Clojure REPL all the time.
markus2012 on HN
Smalltalk / Pharo
From 1 comment
Well, looks like Pharo can do all of this for a while. http://pharo-project.org Type inference is an object of interest: http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects/type-inference-tools…
philippeback on HN
LightTable
From 1 comment
This very much reminds me of Chris Granger's LightTable.
integricho on HN
Interlisp
From 1 comment
I'm not quite sure what you mean. By "rewind execution" do you mean something similar to Interlisp's "undo" function?…
fsck--off on HN
Koka
From 1 comment
You might want to check out Koka [1], which includes an effect system to separate pure and effectful computation. I believe there is also a demo of it online [2]. [1]…
seanmcdirmid on HN