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VB6: What made a generation fall in love with programming.

I can completely empathize - sometimes some problems never leave us.. like that piece of food stuck b/w teeth. There's a force within us asking us to right that problem in the world.

All the best to your project.

Many find it distasteful, and many finding liberating. I think it's broadly correlates with how they feel about expressing themselves in english vs say C++.

As a side question, is there anyone who's using LLMs primarily in non-english mode to program? I suspect there's quite a few people using mandarin, but can someone share first-hand account.

In a potential modern cloud, having a globally named primitives (computer, store, messaging) can unlock very wider applications. Have you come across any such?

1) Programming language training happens by volume, and the amount of JS/TS/python out there, and the rate it's growing at - is causing a training effects loop, which means for a few generations of models, these will be the best performing languages. Will be hard for a contender to spin up.

2) At some point, if we plateau on productivity - then efficiency improvements will happen, which will open a door for programming languages that maintains productivity, but is 10x cheaper on cost.

3) I think more immediate gains are at the cloud level. IMO, one of the reasons Google cloud is performing better(along with firebase) is much better overall CLI experience, leading to a pleasurable experience developing against it. This part of the market is ripe - whoever builds a most LLM friendly cloud has a shot of shooting up. Hence projects like exe.dev, and whatever cloudflare and vercel are trying. It would be good to have some shakeup in the cloud world.

Anyway, this is where my thoughts are currently.

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Very cool. I wonder how it stacks up against golang for production apps. Anyone comment?

Which means clarity of purpose, and then articulating it to LLM is the skill. English + critical thinking.

Back in 2006/7 I had an idea for a project for which, in all enthusiasm, I setup a mailing list, but ended up never pursuing it. It's a very unique name.

In 2012, another developer landed on the same name for their project, but saw that the mailing list was taken up and reach out inquiring if he could take over, and I obliged because here's another person doing something in cryptography and open source, 2 of my favorite things then (and now).

The project was "scrypt" and the developer was Colin! :) I knew nothing about Colin or tarsnap then, IIRC.

Sometimes you just do kindnesses of which you're able, with people who you feel a sense of community with, without expectation of anything commercial. Karma adds up, and it's benefits are large, though hard to always articulate.