It's a fun talk by Bret and I think he echoes a lot of the murmurings that have been going around the community lately. It's funny that he latched onto some of the same core tenants we've been kicking around, but from a very different angle. I started with gathering data on what makes programming hard, he looked at history to see what made programming different. It's a neat approach and this talk laid a good conceptual foundation for the next step: coming up with a solution.
In my case, my work on Light Table has certainly proven at least one thing: what we have now is very far from where we could be. Programming is broken and I've finally come to an understanding of how we can categorize and systematically address that brokeness. If these ideas interest you, I highly encourage you to come to my StrangeLoop talk. I'll be presenting that next step forward: what a system like this would look like and what it can really do for us.
These are exciting times and I've never been as stoked as I am for what's coming, probably much sooner than people think.
In my case, my work on Light Table has certainly proven at least one thing: what we have now is very far from where we could be. Programming is broken and I've finally come to an understanding of how we can categorize and systematically address that brokeness. If these ideas interest you, I highly encourage you to come to my StrangeLoop talk. I'll be presenting that next step forward: what a system like this would look like and what it can really do for us.
These are exciting times and I've never been as stoked as I am for what's coming, probably much sooner than people think.
EDIT: Here's the link to the talk https://thestrangeloop.com/sessions/tbd--11