Notices by jjg (jjg@social.coop), page 6

Thinking about creating a new-school of user interface design by integrating the work of Edward Tufte and Jef Ruskin.

Man I love waking-up to all these new & boosted anarchists toots.

@piecritic @icedquinn @cjd one more reason for me to to spend more time with Rust....

@Gargron fwiw this sort of thing hasn’t been much of a barrier for the “makers movement” 🤣

#keepthetoot

@h it’s funny because on first read I wasn’t sure if this referred to a technical or political post 😁

@cjd @icedquinn yeah, I have to say as much as I use dynamically typed languages, I prefer static types, especially ones that reflect the true types of the system.

I’ve wasted many more hours chasing dynamic type errors than I have fixing static type errors the compiler pointed me directly to 😂

@freakazoid I’ve heard that a few times :)

@cjd the irony being that COBOL probably had the highest ROI of any programming language 🤣

@mdhughes fair

Reading about Newton script made me realize how it’s kind of dumb that we try to use existing tools for new types of devices with little respect for device constraints.

Instead we cram something like a crippled OSX or Windows or Java onto a phone, instead of coming up with something new that’s designed for the purpose.

It “works”, and you can argue the cost-effectiveness, but it’s also kind of dumb, lazy and has serious side-effects.

I should set aside some time to learn lua

I really like the idea of an embeddable language with C like syntax

@gemlog @cosullivan count me in!

@h @DistroJunkie whoa

I wonder if I can read any of my old project floppies...?

@h @vertigo I came late to compiles languages, it must have been around 1992-3 that I first used C. Until then it was BASIC and assembler (using and assembler I wrote in BASIC 😂)

@akkartik @vertigo @h this looks neat, how hard would it be to support other CPU’s?