The Ludwig editor has been open sourced! https://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news98662.html
Ludwig was an early (38 years ago) editor offering full screen editing, which was wildly computationally expensive next to contemporary line editors.
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The "Rule Of Least Power" makes a great argument in favour of less computationally capable languages. It claims this helped HTML/CSS adoption.
https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/leastPower.html
Applying this principle, I'd expect total languages to be popular. This hasn't happened AFAICT: what's missing?
One fascinating property of chess engine design is that a deeper tree search can be more valuable than a smarter board value metric.
If a metric is more accurate but more computationally expensive, it might not be worthwhile! It's a precision/brute force tradeoff.
As a developer, you develop an intuition for the computational cost of doing things. It's possible to become computationally stingy: "a real time text editor (i.e. updates as soon as you type) is a huge waste of resources!"
I wish I had a good name for this phenomenon.