[rwesty]

I’m optimistic for interactive and physical programming to take a foothold in our world. How many more phone apps do we really need? Aren’t many of the user optimized social apps wreaking havoc on the youth?

Shifting thinking back to extending human creativity and making programming available to less technical audiences might change our technology use to a less neck craning, social interaction devoid format.

These things take time and significant breakthroughs. See - https://www.lively-kernel.org. Over a decade ago Dan Ingalls and team built a Smalltalk inspired JavaScript flavor. IDE and language combined.

That has morphed into lively.next which is used by at least one commercial company to develop animated visualizations.

I hope to see this type of programming expanded. I had a SMART board in middle school - think figma on a big white board - and teachers came up with lots of creatives ways to engage us and get us to work with each other through doodling on the board.

Will that reach the professional world? Can NASA doodle a spaceship to the moon? Maybe with AI tool development, the idea of computers filling in the technical detail for user drawn plans isn’t impossible.