New guest post on the blog from my friend Anton (https://twitter.com/atroyn); Visual Debugging Now! https://nickarner.com/notes/visual-debugging-now-may-20-2022/ Includes a project proposal that some in this community may find interesting to take up

This post is making my pulse race. I’m actually a bit emotional, heh. I have been struggling so.. damn.. hard to find people that can succinctly put in to words the different ways the sides of the programming and development worlds all are trying to converge on one thing: Seeing what the hell you’re doing. If I may be allowed a minor plug, the #CCL5VVBAN has a link to my project where I try to tackle this very thing. It’s specifically the idea of viewing code, but I’m working on finding and building the tools that let you do the analysis - Swift is really, really lacking in this respect so far. That means things like runtime state poking, type lookups and definitions etc, are all gated by the big barrier between the high level language and all the goodies that C provides.

In Python there are readily available viz modules, and people use them. They suck because they’re mostly not interactive and are effectively stuck in the 70s.

This is the sentence that does it for me. I feel it viscerally, and I just can’t write, think, or learn fast enough to get my ideas into code.

Any interest in chatting about this further?

Absolutely interested in chatting more ❤️ I’m in the code now even, haha

Are you on Twitter?

I just uncogwebbed it actually, yes, haha. @FeeTiki I believe.

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TIL there’s a group DM.

(on twitter dot com)