[robto]

I just finished watching, and I'm super excited about this idea. There's been a lot of talk in the Clojure community about how to improve documentation, and then Rich comes along and thinks hard about it for a long time and then drops a general purpose data browser. I'm really excited by the possibilities this brings to the table.

> This is design work. Thanks Rich.

Well said! It feels to me that the power of a whole language with simplicity as a core philosophy is now starting to snowball up some really powerful tooling - since small changes can create big improvements.

We've got some new developers at work who are learning Clojure and so I've been rewatching some old Rich Hickey videos (Hammock Driven Development) and it's cool to see the payoff 7 years later of what he was talking about back then.

[taeric]

I'm curious on just how new this is. Feels like very similar things have been demoed before in environments like Dr Racket.

Still lots of fun, mind you. And anything to bring these environments to more folks. I just worry about things that only demo well if well rehearsed. Which seems to be more technology than makes sense.

[bitwize]

This stuff dates back to the Lisp Machine at least. But Clojure is the only relevant Lisp left, so no exciting Lisp technology actually officially exists until Rich Hickey invents it.

[TeMPOraL]

Oh come on, there's still the undying Common Lisp, and also Emacs Lisp has a lot of relevance, even if indirectly.

[lispm]

Satire is hard to detect...

[TeMPOraL]

Oh. I can hear it now.