Future of Coding Weekly 2021/03 Week 4

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🃏 Web Hypercard 💡 ARPA.uk 🦀 Computing with Crabs 🔤 Turing Complete Fonts 🧑‍🔬 Uncanny Valley in PL Design

Two Minute Week

🐝 Wasp: A simple language for developing full-stack web apps with less code via Martin Sosic

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Last week at wasp-lang.dev:

• pull/202 the way Wasp proxies IO to background processes (frontend, server, database) -> inherited stdin, fixed encoding, wrote smarter logic for combining output from different sources.
• Wrote very initial version of wasp-lang/example-thoughts.
• Published About the new simple declarative language we invented for developing web apps with no boilerplate.
• Did initial work on migration Prisma to 2.18 -> realized changes are bigger than expected.
• Preparing for YC Demo Day!

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Thinking Together

💭 by Tyler Adams

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I had a shower thought about pushing to prod, wanted to share it with FoC.

Pushes to prod make no sense except for front end. A push to prod is basically FORCING EVERYBODY ONTO IT NOW. You used an old version? Too bad it's gone.

For front end, I get it, no human is going to visit http://v1337.facebook.com. But backend, where clients are programs? Makes no sense.

Why don't we use proper dependency management? Push a new version to prod. Let clients migrate manually to that new version.

Want to break backwards compatibility, go for it. Push first (and use semver), fix clients later.

If clients want the latest and not have to upgrade manually, let them use a symbolic version "latest." Just like the current system, only opt-in.

Why can't we have this world?

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💬 by elvis chidera

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Are there good open-source projects for building the UI editor interfaces found on most no-code tools (like retool.com, glideapps.com, etc)?

Components on one side, properties on the other and content in the middle. Drag-n-drop components, etc. Like the attached image.

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Content

💻 Hyperscript: an experimental scripting language designed for the web, inspired by HyperTalk via Christopher Galtenberg

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hyperscript has been a fun early project to watch

Essentially trying to replace javascript with a variant of hypertalk

Docs

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📝 Software Visualization in Prolog via bmitc

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I found this interesting dissertation by Calum Grant today entitled Software Visualization in Prolog.

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🔗 ARPA: what is it and why does Dominic Cummings want one in the UK? via Chris Knott

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British users might be interested that Dominic Cummings' ARPA idea seems to be moving forward - Advanced Research and Invention Agency Bill - ARIA (Advanced Research and Invention Agency). Cummings has blogged before about Bret Victor's work and visited Dynamicland.

Putting aside DC's politics and personality, it is good to see high risk, long term research being taken seriously by central government, and also that this is not tied to the military.

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📝 Robust Soldier Crab Ball Gate via Kartik Agaram

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Robust ballistic computation by tropical soldier crabs:

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🎥 Uncanny Valleys in Declarative Language Design via Mariano Guerra

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🔗 Overv/outrun via Srini Kadamati

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One of the coolest projects I’ve stumbled into this month. Such a poetic idea!

Is your ‘localhost’ being slow? Screw it, offload to some other beefy server to do heavy lifting and send you back the results. Love how its integrated at cli + filesystem level. Obviously some serious limitations to it, but its a nice personal computing / homebrew approach 🍺

Also makes cloud computing..more true to the name?

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🔤 Fontemon: World's first video game in a font! via Mariano Guerra

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The future of coding is Turing Complete Times New Roman:

It's a video game in a font! A font as in "Time New Roman". The entire game is enclosed in fontemon.otf, no javascript, no html, all font.

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