@lettosprey

Several old Devs gathered around a poorly lit table in a run down bar near the edge of the Wastelands.

With a voice that speaks of the scars of long fought battles one Dev breaks the silence: "There were... programming languages written in XML. You had things like <If condition="something"> ... </if>"

The Dev begins to sob and retract into a fetal position as they mumble something about function returns and binary interface layers. The rest just pour themselves another round.

@lettosprey "Perhaps if we used XML to specify our LLM..."
(or maybe I 've seen one XKCD tagnote too many.)

@lettosprey There's one of these every few years; other notable hits include 4GLs and The Almighty Blockchain. And AI another few times, actually.

@decibyte

Well said!

Also when I gave a presentation on #clojurescript on my pre-previous workplace (all collegues were "IT newcomers") showing the interactive development (REPL) and moldable development instead of recompiling all the time they was NOT impressed neither interested. And the core dialog was: «But it's possible to do all the shown with REPL with just browser's console! — Are you doing it? — Well... No»

@shegeley Nice work! Thanks for sharing, Clojure was my first Lisp so I often feel like I'm missing some of these functions.

I stumbled across #lokke a while back, haven't tried it yet -- I think it's more focused on being a #clojure dialect on top of #guile but could be of interest to you?

https://github.com/lokke-org/lokke

if you want to use clojureism as #guix package with git-fetch see https://github.com/shegeley/hatis/commit/14f2e85c71e87c877c1ba3f25caa99f5bcbb664d

@davidrevoy : Merci David, ce genre de post est essentiel. Et tu pointes bien les problèmes de Wayland que les geeks en console comme moi ne voient pas (je ne sais même pas ce que c’est la calibration d’un écran).

Au fait, bienvenue sous Debian !

@davidrevoy but is the phone working?

@davidrevoy loved this article. I also installed #debian12 with #gnome but I may switch after reading!

@luis_felipe I like the design :) I might be tempted by a more general "Lisp" one :)

Also by Emacs merch (mug),

and if products are sent from the EU.

cheers

@luis_felipe That design is really cool.

@luna three

@luna Nat 20. I cast FIREBALL

@luna @irina

15.

Nothing too bad happens. The email, wounded but not dead, skulks off into the shadows to recover. I continue on my merry way, but am dreading the rolls I’ll have to make against a growling pack of LLMs in the next town.

Willing to help?

See https://gist.github.com/shegeley/d42e737b7d758c3ec7fb6e9918abe81b (& comments)

#guile #guix #srfi

@futurile
Will the talk be available digitally during or after?
@daviwil @dthompson

@mwl I'm a fan of the old despair.com poster: "That which does not kill me only postpones the inevitable."

@mwl

@mwl totally misread that as "That witch did not kill me..."
And honestly, is also likely true.