Anyone played with Motoko yet? <https://stackoverf...
# thinking-together
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Anyone played with Motoko yet? https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/08/24/motoko-the-language-that-turns-the-web-into-a-computer/ looks really interesting, kind of reminds me of Unison in some ways
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I've been trying to get it running, but the local development environment isn't Windows-friendly, and doesn't seem to play well with Windows Subsystem for Linux. On
dfx start
, I keep getting
Permissions too open for path
errors with a reference to a Rust file whose source I can't find. Changing the permissions of the path in question alternates the original error with a
Permission Denied
error. Google turns up nothing. I think the Internet Computer as a whole is a fascinating idea, Motoko aside, and I'd love to work with it because it fits well with the philosophy of a project I've had planned for a few years, but I guess I'll have to wait until the dev experience is more stable/I have energy to install a full unix distro.
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@Cameron King ah thats a shame you are having issues on windows. Im a windows user too and was planning on having a tinker with it when I get a spare min