I hadn't looked at sketch-n-sketch for a while, so...
# linking-together
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I hadn't looked at sketch-n-sketch for a while, so I am blown away by what it can do by now. See the recent demos in Ravi Chugh's ICFP 2021 keynote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gGd7pKSpRM

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This actually confirms my current view that the future of computation is specification in terms of constraints rather than rules. That has always been the holy grail of declarative programming, but it gets much clearer when non-textual constraint formulations enter the picture. One more point in favour of constraints: the history of science shows that constraint-based models are much more powerful than rule-based models (see https://blog.khinsen.net/posts/2020/12/10/the-structure-and-interpretation-of-scientific-models/ for the details).
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We got a mention 🙂
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This is the first I heard of ManipML by @Brian Hempel
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haha, it was a hacky, rushed demo. v2 will get more press!
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