big fan of the folk computer, esp since it borrows so many of the ideas from dynamic land and does the work in public and openly

my dream is to have a programming “workshop” where craftspeople build software together like this, with, like, toolbags of custom tools they can spread out on the table and borrow from each other

I'm hoping Omar will be OK with me quoting this from an email he recently sent me on the topic of similarity to DL (nothing secret or controversial here I don't think):

...there are many small-to-medium differences in implementation and language semantics, but I don't think there are any huge differences beyond the level of openness and the general philosophy of the projects -- we aren't that interested in simulations or in the moral imperative of getting rid of screens per se, we just think this area is interesting and underexplored, and we think it's important that people get to learn the concrete details of how you program the system. (we are generally more 'postmodernist', and you can see this in how our language/db semantics are diverging over time, too -- we're not wedded to fixpoint convergence and having a single consistent db state, more interested in high performance even if it comes with some inconsistency and glitches)