Excellent discussion of how REPL programming enables you to write code incrementally, going beyond what you can do with e.g. ipython or ghci.
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The Matter protocol is excellent for puns.
"Does it Matter? It doesn't Matter."
Tried `just` (the task runner) today, and I really like it. npm has scripts, but `just` works anywhere.
Editor integration is also excellent: you can get by with Makefile highlighting, but in Emacs you can even run everything interactively!
https://github.com/casey/just
Thoughtful article about building older software with Nix: https://blinry.org/nix-time-travel/
It's striking how a project that does so much excellent work on build reproducibility still has some build errors in this scenario. Bitrot is scary.
