> ...the whole process of programming just takes too fucking long. The languages we use are not expressive enough, not succinct enough to capture our solutions. The tooling we use is not powerful enough to allow for an efficient exploration of the solution space.
I lately started getting very sick of web dev (which I practice since 2009; way too long). This in turn made me scared for my future income but that's a different story. :D
...I completely agree that trivial shit takes way too long to create or update. Just today I complained on ElixirForum (not to the core team members of Phoenix, just in general) that nowhere in web dev do we have stuff like "make controller.param.add" (which will not just modify the controller but everything that depends on it) or "make controller.param.change_type" (which would generate / edit boilerplate for validation) or "make template.root.change_css_kit" (ha-ha, that one will only happen when AGI is invented!).
I want a program that can modify programs, doing the text editing for me, structurally, not just regexes or even a bit semantic-more-like grouping of text (even that's not good enough). I won't reach for LISP even though I am fairly sure it being homoiconic will make this much easier, because no LISP runtime of any dialect offers transparent parallelism a la Erlang/Elixir or the compile-time guarantees of Rust. But I do sometimes wish all languages were homoiconic regardless. :(
Maybe I'll just gather some money and then just work on tooling that can do the above-described tasks.
I won't fall into the trap of thinking that detailed UML diagrams can lead to 100% correct code generation (although I am tempted to this day!). But there has to be a better way than us wrangling characters on the screen manually all the time.
And it's not even about typing. I enjoy typing.
It's about the menial nature of many tasks. They just... kill you. They slowly drain all your creativity and dreams about the future and desire to change things for the better around you. One day you catch yourself just wishing the work week passed by quicker.
We have to do something! But yeah, we're all slaves to the wage. I wish more of us were like @codinghorror; be rich enough to just one day ping a few buddies and say "hey guys, I am bored -- let's make a forum system" and boom, some years later you have Discourse that's being used more and more everywhere each day.
I wish all of us could as casually work on stuff we love as Jeff Atwood did.
I lately started getting very sick of web dev (which I practice since 2009; way too long). This in turn made me scared for my future income but that's a different story. :D
...I completely agree that trivial shit takes way too long to create or update. Just today I complained on ElixirForum (not to the core team members of Phoenix, just in general) that nowhere in web dev do we have stuff like "make controller.param.add" (which will not just modify the controller but everything that depends on it) or "make controller.param.change_type" (which would generate / edit boilerplate for validation) or "make template.root.change_css_kit" (ha-ha, that one will only happen when AGI is invented!).
I want a program that can modify programs, doing the text editing for me, structurally, not just regexes or even a bit semantic-more-like grouping of text (even that's not good enough). I won't reach for LISP even though I am fairly sure it being homoiconic will make this much easier, because no LISP runtime of any dialect offers transparent parallelism a la Erlang/Elixir or the compile-time guarantees of Rust. But I do sometimes wish all languages were homoiconic regardless. :(
Maybe I'll just gather some money and then just work on tooling that can do the above-described tasks.
I won't fall into the trap of thinking that detailed UML diagrams can lead to 100% correct code generation (although I am tempted to this day!). But there has to be a better way than us wrangling characters on the screen manually all the time.
And it's not even about typing. I enjoy typing.
It's about the menial nature of many tasks. They just... kill you. They slowly drain all your creativity and dreams about the future and desire to change things for the better around you. One day you catch yourself just wishing the work week passed by quicker.
We have to do something! But yeah, we're all slaves to the wage. I wish more of us were like @codinghorror; be rich enough to just one day ping a few buddies and say "hey guys, I am bored -- let's make a forum system" and boom, some years later you have Discourse that's being used more and more everywhere each day.
I wish all of us could as casually work on stuff we love as Jeff Atwood did.
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