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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Y'all this is some COOL-ASS-SHIT! Wanted to get into @spritely tech but you didn't use emacs or didn't run Guix or all those other things? What if there was a structural editor right in the browser that was *designed* for hacking on @spritely tech?

Well that's EXACTLY what @dthompson is working on! I gave it a test today and built this cool picture language demo, printing out a rainbow right at the REPL!

It's a structural editor! So you're not even editing text, you're editing the structure of the code itself! It's damn cool!

Spritely's Hoot IDE, using a picture language. Scheme code for making some simple shapes on the left in the editor tab, and on the right a live REPL session, where some functional Scheme code makes a list of rainbow shapes!