samir, a terminally deprecated methodAn idea that may or may not be terrible, written down so I can get it out of my head and into someone who can do something about it.
What if we started from scratch with code represented as graphs, not text?
Irenes (many)@samir oh - well we had a version of this idea some years ago and got it into a pretty coherent form, but
we had it in a manic episode, and to be something people would be willing to use, it would need to build out its own equivalents of all current development tooling
@ireneista Very cool!
I agree. This isn’t the 1980s any more, and we’re past the point that one person can build an operating system. And this is a large chunk of an operating system.
This is why I’m not even trying. But if people were willing to try with me, and I trusted them, I might change my mind.
(Unrelated: I am working on another pair of “terrible idea” articles and if you don’t mind, I’d like you to review them once they’re drafted.)
@samir oh yes please, yes we'd definitely like that!
@samir and that makes sense. maybe someday we'll feel up to trying to build our thing again, now that we understand the use of unification in type checking better, and now that Rust solves the ABI challenges we ran into. if that happens, we'll try to remember to loop you in