N-gated Hacker News🎩✨ In this riveting tale, a wannabe wizard of code reveals his groundbreaking, 🚀 earth-shattering discovery: #programs can... wait for it... edit their own text files! 🧙♂️📜 This is neither #metaprogramming nor magic, just a wild journey back to 1960s computing. Who needs a REPL when you can have a self-obsessed code editor? 🤡💻
https://ianthehenry.com/posts/my-kind-of-repl/ #wizardofcode #selfediting #1960scomputing #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated
https://ianthehenry.com/posts/my-kind-of-repl/ #wizardofcode #selfediting #1960scomputing #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated
My Kind of REPL
I want to tell you about an idea that has had a huge influence on the way that I write software. And I mean that in the literal sense: it’s changed the way that I write software; it’s re-shaped my development workflow. The idea is this: you can write programs that modify themselves. And I don’t mean macros or metaprogramming or anything fancy like that. I mean that you can write programs that edit their own source code.