| I was following closely LightTable and EVE. Very inspiring projects. > that wall being the limitations of programming languages you outline here Exactly. I was thinking about the same a while ago. EVE is an attempt to build a new reality where those limitations are gone. But it didn't work quite well -- in order to get support, money, users it should be somehow connected to production. There is a platform where all this complexety with IO (the mail send in your example) is abstracted quite nicely and can be manipulated/mocked: the BEAM platform (Erlang, Elixir). You can record IO for particular process (it just messages), replay it if you want. Also, modules can be compiled in any order, functions in module can be defined in any order. It's much easier to treat function as smallest unit of code. To create a parser that could transform code into data, allow it to manipulate (structured editing and all) and transform it back to text form, to be used by other programmers. I think if LightTable was aiming at BEAM platform it could go a bit further. Utilize growing popularity of Elixir, and create a new development platform. |