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smj-edisontoday at 4:33 AM1 replyview on HN

> You walk away from a Bret Victor presentation inspired, but also intimidated by the work put in, and the work required to do anything similar. When you separate his ideas from the work he puts in to perfect the implementation and presentation, the ideas by themselves don't seem to do much.

Amen to that. Even dynamic land has some major issues with GC pauses and performance issues.

I do try to put my money where my mouth is, so I've been contributing a lot to folk computer[1], but yeah, there's still a ton of open questions, and it's not as easy as he sometimes makes it look.

[1] https://folk.computer/


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assimpleaspossitoday at 12:36 PM

Folk computer looks interesting. I wonder what it is. You'll never find that out by looking at that link.

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