Darklang is exploring an IDE experience where you have values you can inspect as you write code. It does this by tracing recent requests and autorunning pure code.
It's neat! Seeing concrete values is a definite usability win.
https://medium.com/darklang/building-an-office-sign-in-in-dark-c2d980560695
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It's weird that GitHub shows time since the last commit, but not time since the first commit. It's a nice way of seeing how mature a project is.
After seeing yet another YAML dialect for controlling systems, I think we need a hierarchy of YAML dialect expressiveness.
(1) Has its own variable binding system.
(2) Supports if statements.
(3) Supports loops.
(4) Supports function definition.
2 seems to be the most common, but I've seen all of 1-3. Does level 4 exist in the wild yet?
After seeing yet another YAML dialect for controlling systems, I think we need a hierarchy of YAML dialect expressiveness.
(1) Has its own variable binding system.
(2) Supports if statements.
(3) Supports loops.
(4) Supports function definition.