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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • Yes, of course I’m going to have to code for those different views. Where else would the views come from? Like if you want a webpage to look different, you need to make a new CSS, it doesn’t just magically look different because you want it to.

    If I want to view the code as a big graph, then I’m going to need to code a graph editor for it. If I want to view it with C style syntax, then I’d need to make a C style syntax editor for it. Etc.

    We already get almost exactly this with JVM and .net language, because you have many languages that compile to their intermediary language, and then can be decompiled back into another language that uses that intermediary language (sorta). But it wasn’t designed to do that, so when you try it’s not great.

    Wouldn’t it be nice if the actual source of truth was the intermediary language, and I could view it as a graph, and you could view it as a c-style language, and someone else could view it as a c-style language but with tab indents and all the keywords were Spanish, and we could all edit it and see eachothers edits in our preferred format?










  • Thats not what I’m talking about.

    python is one of the few popular languages where presentation is semantic but I’m talking about separating semantics from presentation. you should be able to radically change how you see the code without actually changing the file.

    I should be able to apply a personal style to the code and view it with small indentations, or large indentations, with line widths of 80char or 120char, function args within parentheses or not. I should even be able to localize it into another natural language, or even view and edit it as a flow chart instead of text, all without actually changing the underlying file that contains the semantics.





  • Bricks and minifigs (company that resells Legos) basically agreed to sell someone’s Legos for them but stole them.
    Reckless Ben got involved and did his thing to drag b&m until they caved, but instead b&m had him falsely arrested for making threats and selling drugs, and now they’ve charged him with stalking.
    But reckless Ben’s videos exaggerate to the point of intentionally misinforming. Stuff like claiming his sixth amendment is being violated (isn’t being told what he is charged with) when really they just hadn’t yet given him discovery, at the hearing to determine how to safely give him discovery.