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everybody should watch this talk by Tudor Girba on Moldable Development ... https://youtu.be/Pot9GnHFOVU

Where has this tool been my whole life? :P Thanks for the link, I didn't know that one.

Yes, this https://youtu.be/Pot9GnHFOVU is the kind of programmable system I'm talking about, creating behavior on top of your stored content with methods specific to the particular collections of data already in your system, and ideally with minimal syntax for transferring data among the different tools.

⬐ qwertyzxcvmnbv

Super happy this landed, I had the same kind of reaction as you :-)

⬐ mettamage

Edit: My apologies of putting parentheses in the title (that's my addition and not part of the title on the website). The reason I did it: it seems that the idea of "Moldable Development" has been posted more often to HN and it was never picked up. I think the biggest reason might be that "Moldable Development" as a title doesn't say much what it's going to be about and therefore it'd not receive proper attention. I know I am like that.

Original post:

I was watching this YouTube talk as I'm interested in exploring Smalltalk for a bit due to recent HN discussions. some people mentioned it was the greatest productive language ever. Others said it wasn't. But what I did get to understand is that it is unique. Also, Alan Kay is not an unknown name on these forums and he's a fun writer to read. So I figured, why not watch a Smalltalk lecture?

I'm just about 7 min. to this video and what I saw at 7:43 blew my mind. I timestamped the video so that you can get some of the relevant context. It reminds me a lot of Brett Victor's Learnable programming blog post [1] that has been frequently mentioned on here.

[1] http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/