I wish this setting was better-resoected. On Windows PCs, at least. I do not find that Chrome or CrEdge behave significantly differently when my OS settings telegraph my desire for reduced motion.
I think it is closer, although still even it has a cold start problem. Once you are connected and in-session, it is a better experience.
There is still some "turn based" conversational aspect to it that can be awkward but it is much better. It also helps that you can "tap and hold" to override, which is a bit of a hack but works well in practice for that mobile use-case.
Sorry what I meant was: have you tried _recently_? I feel that what you describe is the old implementation. The current version, with a colorful bubble, has very low latency and starts almost instantly. The older version has a UI composed of a white dot on a black background, and is pretty slow. But the more recent one is pure magic IMHO.
If enough people believe it, then you failed in your democratic duty to create an educational system that produces citizens able to separate fact from non fact. Relevance from irrelevance. And so on.
In a democracy, the educational system is a democratic practice. A civic duty. We could have changed our educational system to be better, we didn’t. That’s on us. We could change it now. We won’t. That’s a choice. A democratic choice.
The practice of democracy is not solely about voting. There are many democratic choices we make every day that concert to give us the government we deserve.
I’m sorry but in 2025 that type of thinking feels extremely naive. There is an education issue, but that’s such a detail compared to the level of propaganda, misinformation. People have been groomed by entire networks of misinformation for such a long time. It’s a complete take over of the democratic system, by nefarious actors, to their own benefit. Doing so fully in the open
1. This is specifically designed for portable hardware with minimal controls - not general-purpose programming.
2. Like music trackers, unfamiliarity makes it look complex, but the rules are simple and consistent once learned.
The five-expression limit creates a natural balance in function decomposition that's neither too granular nor too monolithic. While the code might look strange initially, the structured format actually enhances readability once you're fluent in the paradigm - just as tracker musicians can quickly "read" musical patterns that would appear cryptic to others.
Readability is highly contextual and shaped by our existing paradigms. This article/concept explores whether different constraints might offer unique advantages for creative coding in specific environments.
> 1. This is specifically designed for portable hardware with minimal controls - not general-purpose programming.
I don't understand why portable hardware warrants a new programming model. What does make C such a significantly worse candidate for the examples given in the article?
> 2. Like music trackers, unfamiliarity makes it look complex, but the rules are simple and consistent once learned.
Columns and rows in tracker music have specific meanings: each column corresponds to a channel, and each row corresponds to a point in time. Not in this case. In this layout, columns are arbitrary, and their meaning changes every row. Rows don't have any more meaning than regular code. I don't think they're equivalent.
1. Because of hardware limitations. Writing text using arrow keys and 4 buttons is a real pain, error prone, requires formatting, uses way too much horizontal space. C would also be a horrible choice for creative programming, you cannot quickly tweak things around, iteratively and interactively develop your program. That doesn't match the tracker workflow I'm interested in.
2. In my concept columns and rows do have specific meaning too. Each row is a function (known as words in Forth, the language that is the closest to what I'm doing and a main source of inspiration). Columns have clear meaning, as mentioned in the article:
- function name
- input
- expressions 1-5
- output
That does match quite closely what my m8 tracker does in phrase view, where columns are:
- note
- volume
- instrument
- effects 1-3
I'm not sure what made you think that columns and rows are arbitrary.
For context, the main use case is to generate demo-scene like animations for my music. I would hate to write C on such a limited device for that purpose — in fact that's exactly what I do not want and the reason for this project to exist.
My current language is based on Forth, which is a better fit as that allows me to use more horizontal space and not have to think about registries and memory addresses. Similar to Forth my tabular format works with a stack based model where data flows implicitly between expressions.
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