HAhappy-go-lucky·Aug 26, 2017Submission
Arrowsmith: Augmented editor for Elm
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arrowsmith
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lachenmayer / arrowsmith
arrowsmith
Augmented editor for Elm.
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Augmented editor for Elm.
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| May 8 | 2017-05-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-15 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 15 | 2017-05-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 22 | 2017-05-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 29 | 2017-05-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-06-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 5 | 2017-06-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-06-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 12 | 2017-06-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-06-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 19 | 2017-06-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-06-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 26 | 2017-06-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 3 | 2017-07-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 10 | 2017-07-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 17 | 2017-07-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 24 | 2017-07-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 31 | 2017-07-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-08-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 7 | 2017-08-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-08-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 14 | 2017-08-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-08-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 21 | 2017-08-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-08-28 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesI threw my own hat into the ring with my undergraduate thesis, in which I wanted to create an editor for Elm which took advantage of all the niceties that strongly-typed functional reactive programming affords. I also took a closer look at some of the projects mentioned here (Light Table, Lamdu, Tangible Values, Scratch/Hopscotch, Inventing on Principle etc...). You can find its (now totally obsolete) remains here: https://github.com/lachenmayer/arrowsmith
The idea was basically: you should be able to use different editing UIs for values of different types. The lowest common denominator is code as text, but you should be able to switch on different editing UIs for numbers, colours, graphics, record types etc. The second half of this video shows off some demos for all of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csRaVagvx0M
I also had some (f
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ar too) ambitious plans for stuff like type-driven drag & drop editing (mainly for function application), which I unfortunately didn't get to implement, but you can read about them in the report: https://github.com/lachenmayer/arrowsmith/blob/master/report...
By far the most intellectually stimulating work I've ever done! We're definitely not there yet, to paraphrase Alan Kay :~)