First day at the #linuxmobile stand at #FOSDEM 2024 was packed! Our devroom is sadly over but we'll be at the stand for another day, so come on by if you haven't already!
There's all the usual wow, Smalltalk allows you to edit everything and you're really living inside the IDE and it's part of your editable environment etc, and that's really cool and unparalleled really, but well-known since decades, and then he goes into:
- "Extreme TDD": Write the test, see it fail because a method is missing, *generate that method from the debugger* and then *continue the test to its conclusion*
That was awesome, and then it's strike two and I'm down, gasping for air:
- They have a deprecation mechanism that *rewrites your calling code* when you call the deprecated method, so that it will never call that method again, but call the new one in the proper way.
I have been looking for a Lispy replacement to #Python for a year now. #Racket is batteries-included like Python. You can also create executable binaries. I'm not looking for efficiency here, since it's just for scripts I run on my desktop.
Though I prefer to use Emacs over DrRacket, I can see how it can bring down the barrier to entry significantly.
Definitely going to need a few days to recover from #fosdem and #copyleftconf but was great to be there and it inspires me to make #oggcamp rock even more! Come join us in October - http://OggCamp.org
If you are at #FOSDEM today, pass by the @fsfe@twitter.com booth in building K, talk with us about Public Money Public Code in the light of the upcoming European Elections and equip yourself with our new expert brochure (and/or tshirt) about #publiccode: https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190124-01.html
#FOSDEM there's a person asking lots of questions and being generally kind of excited in the minimalistic languages room and I'm 90% sure it's @cwebber
#FOSDEM people are awesome. I had lost my purse/wallet and @fayred found it and handed it into lost & found. Kindness of fosdem folks should not be underestimated. ^_^