Congrats on taking your initiative through a full lifecycle. As an aside: I really enjoyed the website aesthetics – the layout and design for one, but also the “ascii screenshots” rendered in <div class="terminal">. Very nice.

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It appears near the very bottom of the interview, but I think it’s super important: pedagogy of programming, especially in the context of programmers teaching their own children. I think we’re at once in a very privileged but also cursed position.

LOGO the programming language is simply beautiful from a pedagogical perspective, and I’ve done a bit of Logo programming with my kids when they were younger. IBM Logo in dosbox was what I ended up going with – there is a fantastic immediacy to the system that you don’t often see nowadays. I think the closest we get is PICO-8.

Curious if other parent lobsters have experiences with LOGO programming. Seems to have been a big thing in Europe in the 80’s and early 90’s, but not so much across the pond.

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Funny, I have the opposite gut feeling. There will certainly be “market pressure”, just as there was with the python2->3 transition, and yet despite the pressure, it was a protracted trauma for many organizations. The system on hand is not the big question, but, as some others have noted in other threads, it’s the huge ecosystem around the main system that is more thorny. cf. python the language vs. python-the-ecosystem.

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