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aaron_kent | 8 years ago | on: An experimental software development environment

Those sorts of general syntactic sugars are something we've put a lot of work into. (Currently if statements, for loops, for comprehensions, ternary operations, etc are all just sugar and don't affect the underlying source.) We also plan to expose the underlying format on the platform and let users write their own transforms. So people can invent and share their own intuitive or concise representations and have them applied everywhere immediately (and also shared with other users).

aaron_kent | 8 years ago | on: An experimental software development environment

Thanks!

In terms of applications, our initial work has been to export functions as microservices onto existing platforms (e.g., Lambda). We've also explored downloading code as either native artifacts (e.g., maven) or as command-line apps. We are also playing around with adding integrations for ReactJS to support web applications. Where we focus our deployment efforts is one of our current big questions, and one where we are most interested in community feedback.

In terms of the abstraction, you are quite right that the examples we've shown are very trivial, really just to convey the concepts. The more interesting work will probably be sharing much more complex functions, or sharing the built app/services themselves (which could be made transparent within the platform itself).

Definitely reach out if you have more thoughts or feedback!

aaron_kent | 8 years ago | on: An experimental software development environment

Thanks! Learning is certainly an application we've considered. We have found significant interest in structured editing paradigms from those newer to coding and those who find the code-as-text paradigm frustrating/limiting. But we certainly aren't setting out to change the minds of people proficient and happy with text editing.

We wrote up some thoughts on the economics of structured editing on our blog: https://blog.isomorf.io/the-economics-of-semantic-coding-7e8....

For those interested in this field, there is an emerging subreddit: r/nosyntax

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