absolutely does! for a new language that no one has heard of, it is essential that examples make at least a parallel with other languages. providing examples for mundane things is very useful to build the understanding with the reader who hasn't been writing a paper on OM language.
i'm really not trying to be snarky or anything, but right at the top of the om page it describes the language as concatenative and homoiconic. without searching that or asking an llm, do you know what those terms mean? or what fold is?
could be there's nothing wrong with the page and you're really just not the audience for it. hacker news has many currents, most of which don't interest me, and that's fine, i don't feel the need to weigh in on everything.
As is clearly explained on the web page, this is not a programming language for everyday tasks, it's an early stage proof of concept that can be used to explore how computer science might be expressed in unusual ways.
Implementing fold would be something of a milestone in such a language.
how does that work for you when working on a massive established codebase, with hundreds of engineers committing daily? do you still keep track of everything in your head? do you carve your sandbox and only work within it? I have seen way worse code from actual engineers, than from LLMs (especially lately).
I currently work on a 11 year code base with around ~20 developer who make changes to it daily/weekly.
how does that work for you when working on a massive established codebase, with hundreds of engineers committing daily?
Its unlikely that I will understand everything but each time I add a feature or fix a bug I understand part of the system better. I currently have mental models of the different systems that make up the code base and over time the more I work on it the more refined my models gets. Some section of the code base I know that really well even though didn't write it myself.
do you still keep track of everything in your head?
Like I said, for parts I haven't looked deeply into I have mental models, think a white board with a bunch of boxes and arrows between them.
do you carve your sandbox and only work within it?
some parts of our code base are well written so you don't have to understand everything to work in it just the class and methods your call. The same way you don't have to know how fastAPI classes and methods are actually code just how to use them. That being said there are time where I have to look into the actual implementation but its not the worst thing in the world.
yes some human written code is bad but I find that its bad because its quirky and doesn't follow a familiar flow. On the other hand LLM's are pretty good at following patterns of a code base but i find that they do more than what is necessary.
I see the point as "let's not overcomplicate the API with complex schemas and such. Lets not use GraphQL for everything. Just create a simple API and call it to extend stuff. Am I wrong?
This would be awesome - let's make finance responsible for infrastructure! That way they can at the same time save a lot of money, and be accountable (pun intended) for the impact they make by "saving" money.
Or nothing. Literally! No GOP representative will dare go against the Trump, or else they will be primaryied. The law only applies if there are consequences, and in this case there aren't consequences. If you don't realize this is how US operates, you are living in some la-la land like the democrats that insist on decorum, norms and such other BS.
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