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by seanmcdirmid 4353 days ago
The point of the abstractions presented in the essay is that they are under the programmer's control (write code to debug code isn't that new), so they only see as much as they want to. This is in contrast to automatic methods that show everything and are too noisy.

Scaling will perhaps come with time, by which I mean managed time. It is a nice goal for next gen languages.
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sitkack 4353 days ago
What do you think of the work that Philip Guo [0] is doing? Specifically the youtube video.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8002839

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seanmcdirmid 4352 days ago
Philip has more of an educational focus, so more is shown to help then understand what is going on (also, see Bret Victor's Learnable Programming Essay). The work presented in this essay deals with enhancing the debugging experience for programmers who are already trained up.
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