[gravity13]

I get the sense the end goal here isn't in productivity but more for education and creating environments that foster a programming mindset and/or nourish more emergent creativity from being able to code at a higher level (probably the most consistent theme in all of Bret Victor's forays).

In a sense, it's basically just a framework with a text editor that isn't based in an OS but instead a 2d surface that you interact with, using your hands and interacting in a more social medium than something like, say, git.

[jf]

> I get the sense the end goal here isn't in productivity but more for education and creating environments that foster a programming mindset and/or nourish more emergent creativity from being able to code at a higher level

While those uses are certainly easy to see and imagine in Dynamicland, the mission statement for Dynamicland is to "incubate a humane dynamic medium whose full power is accessible to all people."

The researchers at Dynamicland take this mission statement quite seriously and are making a new medium. Like any medium, this one isn't explicitly limited to one kind of use.

[pweissbrod]

That's fine. Right now I've seen several accolades on Hacker News which to a website that has pictures and videos of dancing lights and spinning paper with lots of hand waving around how all of this actually works. It's natural that people who like to Tinker would like to better understand I have all these impressive things come together to build something practical