I know because I think I trawled all of that 1-2 years ago. The core language is great. All of the stuff around it is a bit difficult.
And I think the thing is that languages these days are more “the stuff around” than the actual thing and syntax itself.
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I don’t see the issue that much. It probably depends on whether you see software engineering as a goal or as a means.
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Anything touched by one of the frontier labs should automatically be public domain given how they treated all other intellectual property as if it were public domain to begin with.
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I couldn’t find that and that’s decent bare documentation but doesn’t explain why the concept of image keeps coming up. So arguably that’s pretty sparse for something that’s such a central concept.
(Not that I think there’s really a tutorial for factor linked on the site anyway.)
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to write code vendored in the Factor source directory itself, and programs were impossible to distribute other than “extract this tarball into your Factor source folder”.
I forgot about this. This too was wildly off-putting.
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Oh I was looking for image. I don’t think it’s anywhere in the documentation (because I couldn’t find a page for it just now) and an offhand explanation in a Discord channel really is not enough.
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trying my best to complain about async Rust, only to end up going “Oh. Yeah. That’s reasonable. That makes sense. I can see why they did it that way.” every step of the way.
I never understood the complaining about async rust. Is it like kubernetes/react where people just kneejerk into it?
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I really wanted to like Factor. But figuring out how to run code and package it and the paths and whatever was just too annoying.
This stuff:
Since the vocabulary was already loaded when you scaffolded it, we need a way to refresh it from disk
“vocabulary”, “scaffold”, “refresh”?
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On the side I do occasional six-figure gigs where I fly to companies and teach them my techniques, and that helps with my (considerable) token bills.
I would bet money this guy does not do six figure gigs and most of the other things in this article are also fantasised.
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I was a bit confused whether this was an existing Rust feature or a “new invention”.
Is it built using Rust unions? (Something I don’t think I’ve ever seen used.)
It feels adjacent to Roc’s open tag unions?
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