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Repository for the book "Crafting Interpreters"
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Suggestion to enable GitHub discussions #939

Open ceronman opened 3 years ago

ceronman commented 3 years ago

Hi Bob,

Thanks again for this wonderful book. I haven't had this much fun reading a technical book in a very long time!

I have a small suggestion: Since last year GitHub supports discussions. This is like a forum for the project integrated into GitHub itself. I think it would be a nice place for fellow readers to discuss about the book. I would love to ask other Lox implementor how they tackled certain challenges or how the overcame certain implementation language difficulties, etc.

I know some of these discussions are already happening in as issues. But perhaps having a separate place is better for discoverability.

What do you think?

munificent commented 3 years ago

I like this idea in principle, but I believe that online communities need moderation to thrive and that's not something I have the time for (or feel comfortable delegating to others). I'd be absolutely delighted to have other people create and manage a community around the book elsewhere, and would be happy to participate as much as I can. But being in charge of one is more than I can take on while still having time to write and do other stuff.

ceronman commented 3 years ago

That's okay :)

I do agree that communities require moderation and it's a lot of work. You've already put a lot of effort in this book and it's completely understandable that you want to avoid the burden of moderating a community.

Thanks a lot for your answer.

I have noticed there is some discussion around the book in the ProgrammingLanguages subreddit. I will try to bring some topics there.