alt Hacker NewsI love this, too many people keep themselves busy discussing bits and bytes, or Stephen Wolfram's personality.
The reality is that by now we should already be at a level where common programming would be like Wolfram everywhere.
Maybe agents and LLM driven code generation is how we eventually get into the next abstraction level, sadly won't be without casualties with smaller team sizes, when so much can be automated away.
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creata • today at 10:24 AM
> The reality is that by now we should already be at a level where common programming would be like Wolfram everywhere.
What aspects of the Wolfram language should be everywhere? The easy access to lots of datasets? The easy access to lots of mathematical functions? CAS in general?
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Hi Stephen, is that you?
Jokes and sales pitches aside. We kinda have that already, we platforms that allow us to run the same code on, x86, arm, wasm… and so on. It’s just there is no consensus on which platform to use. Nor should there be since that would slow progress of new and better ways to program.
We will never have one language to span graphics, full stack, embedded, scientific, high performance, etc without excessive bloat.