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I think the biggest problem is that expressions are lists, but we build lists with quoting, AND unquoting (or quasiquoting). It takes some effort to look at an expression and be certain of what will be run. Are we displaying the instructions to erase the hard drive, or the output of erasing the hard drive.

Compare this with Prolog. I like to say "a term is just a term until it's a goal". Assuming we have an erase_hard_drive/1 predicate, I know it's safe to do

    write_term(erase_hard_drive([force,silent,noprompt]), [])

or

    EraseCommand = erase_hard_drive([force,silent,noprompt]).

I’ve actually implemented a TUI in Prolog (because there wasn’t anything in the space and I wanted to make sure it respected the relational/logical nature of Prolog). I’m happy with performance and developer ergonomics. But before I publish it, I want to firm up some opinions on how TUIs should behave for end users. Do you have any suggestions other than “use Vim/Emacs and think about it”?

Thank you! I've recently become a bit obsessed with the work of Blaise Agüera y Arcas and his BFF experiments (self-replicating (Brainfuck) programs emerging spontaneously from random noise). This got me thinking about running a similar experiment with Cellular Automata (efficiently on GPUs). So I'll definitely be playing with this.

Intense. I thought “lose it all” meant wiping your phone.

I tried exactly this idea a few years ago (inspired by how Bear app did Markdown at the time). But I never solved all the issues to get it working 100%.Eventually I just gave up and moved on. So bravo and thank you for making it work!!

When is a good time (in the timeline of mankind) to stop being adversarial with AI?

Apparently I'm a super smeller (always the first to detect gas leaks, food that's off, know the brand of shampoo a person uses if I'm 200ft down wind, know if you use scented dish soap to clean the bowl you used to make cookies in when I eat the cookie). And I just think the idea that adding smells to the world is absolutely insane. Can I beam my favourite colours directly into your eyes with a laser from across the room? What if I know you like that colour too?

I’m realized years ago I have full blown aphantasia. But I don’t suffer from autobiographical memory deficiencies. For me it’s akin to what happens when you close your eyes for a moment then open them again. I’m not shocked by everything in the room “appearing” suddenly. I knew it was all there, but not because I visualized it while my eyes were closed. So when I remember past events, it’s with that same sensation of being there but just having closed my eyes to it. I do dream with full imagery.

After spending a lot if time in Prolog, I want a nice way to implement and compose nondeterministic functions and also have a compile time type check. I’m eyeing all of these languages as a result. I’ll watch Ante as well. (Don’t forget developer tools like an LSP, tree-sitter or other editor plugins).

A Prolog TUI library that sticks to relational/logical programming, is conceptually simple, complete, and performant. Only requires some core ansi features that exist or are easily implemented in most Prologs. Currently have stuff like nested scrollable areas, toggles, frames, buttons, layouts working.

Also, a visual programming language implemented as a PICO-8 script, where the "programming" is done fully in the sprite editor.

Ok I’m genuinely convinced I’d be happier using Fennel than using Lua in instances where I need to use Lua. I’m not currently using Lua for anything. Maybe if I write a Pico-8 app…

As a proficient Elm developer with industry experience, I’m wondering what are the biggest challenges in hiring devs? Is it the paradigm, learning the ecosystem, lack of interest? Are you currently hiring?

> Readability is a property of the reader, not the language.

Similarly, the inability of a person to write machine code directly is a property of the person, not the hardware. Yet some of these people admit their limitations and use K.