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1. Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2019 15:54:18 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

   Here is a big fight I am going to have to make with myself ahead. And actually, I can use community input.

   The current plan for Spritely has been for me to use the tools I am writing in Racket. I've been very happy hacking in Racket personally and the tooling is coming along.

   However, I am duplicating work that the Agoric folks are doing in making an ocap secure substrate rich enough to do this stuff: https://agoric.com/

   Except... their stuff is in Javascript. (cotd ...)

   • Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2019 15:56:07 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     I had a conversation with Mark Miller while at RWoT. Should Spritely be written on top of Agoric? From a duplicating work standpoint, probably.

     Except I don't like working with Javascript! I'm a known lisp enthusiast. And I'm not very productive unless I'm happy in my hacking environment.

     But MarkM pointed out that Agoric has worked on Jessie, a subset of Javascript that is closer to Scheme: https://github.com/Agoric/Jessie (Not entirely, but it is more beautiful)

     (cotd ...)

   • Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2019 15:57:42 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

     in reply to

     Now one possible solution is to just build a lisp-like syntax on top of Agoric's Jessie. Then I'd probably be happy enough! And that may be less work than duplicating work in my Racket ecosystem, even if it seems silly. Plus it means that non-lisp users could easily contribute to the system.

     But... it's a pivot. I'm hesitant about making another pivot. But it's probably the right one? I'm unsure.

     Community feedback welcome.

   • Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2019 15:59:46 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     Agoric, for instance, probably has built almost all the right infrastructure to build and trade stamps immediately. And it's being built by the experts in the field.

     Damn, I've really had a lot of fun working on Goblins and I think it's a really interesting infrastructure. I don't really want to throw all that away.

     But we're in early enough stages there to where I could do it.