ramseynasser

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by ramseynasser 7y ago
hi everyone, author here. i am glad this project is still starting conversations six years after it came out! if youre interested in a longer read on the subject of the cultural assumptions of programming and computing systems i wrote an es
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Arcadia, the integration of Clojure in Unity, is now in beta(github.com)
5 points by ramseynasser 8y ago|0 comments
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by ramseynasser 10y ago
To your first point, Mooi is planning on using Clojure as a scripting language. Clojure compiles to CLR bytecode, and is in theory as fast as C# is as a language. Using the idiomatic persistent data structures has an overhead, of course, bu
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by ramseynasser 10y ago
Right, Clojure is always compiled and achieves live coding by running on top of VMs that support dynamic code emission. Python REPLs are quite good, but in my experience order dependent state-mutating code can get tricky in an interactive c
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by ramseynasser 10y ago
Exactly! I'm one of the core devs, and we all see Arcadia as an experiment in what game development could be. Some people want to expend effort mastering the tools of the day, and that's totally cool, but we're somewhat more
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by ramseynasser 10y ago
Fair, but there's an important difference between a tool where live coding is technically possible and a tool designed to support it. Clojure is built from the ground up for the REPL experience and supports e.g. redefining functions se
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by ramseynasser 11y ago
Arcadia dev here! We're always actively working on Arcadia, and are closing in on our next release that brings with it a package manager and all kinds of other goodness. Keep an eye on the repo or jump in the gitter for updates. Lisp i
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by ramseynasser 12y ago
Thanks!
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by ramseynasser 12y ago
That would be amazing! Can you invoke command line scripts from LT? If so you could just use our included REPL client implemented in Ruby. Otherwise you'd have to port it to ClojureScript, but the client is designed to be simple enough
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by ramseynasser 12y ago
IL2CPP has been on our radar for a while. We haven't gotten any real access to Unity 5 yet, so we can't say what the compatibility will be like for sure. But since IL2CPP acts on the CLR bytecode, and Arcadia emits valid CLR bytec
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by ramseynasser 12y ago
You can expect a full, "proper" Clojure 1.7 experience using Arcadia.
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by ramseynasser 12y ago
Totally! Arcadia is based on the Clojure-CLR port (an official project) maintained by David Miller for five years or so. It supports Mono. We had to fork the compiler to introduce a small number of changes to make Arcadia work in Unity, tho
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Arcadia: Unity 3D Development in Clojure(arcadia-unity.tumblr.com)
229 points by ramseynasser 12y ago|32 comments
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Fuck Yeah Papers - Submit the papers you're reading(fuckyeahpapers.tumblr.com)
2 points by ramseynasser 13y ago|0 comments
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Beautifully minimal card decks based on an iOS game(kickstarter.com)
1 points by ramseynasser 13y ago|0 comments
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Request for Proposals: PRISM Break Up(eyebeam.org)
3 points by ramseynasser 13y ago|0 comments
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Twittering every graphical character in the Unicode standard(twitter.com)
1 points by ramseynasser 13y ago|0 comments
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by ramseynasser 13y ago
Don't forget that anyone can write a dumb app! Just fork the repository, add your app, and take out a pull request! https://github.com/dumbstore/dumbstore/
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by ramseynasser 13y ago
dir can be buggy, depending on how you format your location names. Can you give me an example of what's not working?
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by ramseynasser 13y ago
Noted.
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by ramseynasser 13y ago
Wow. Thanks! We will be studying this thoroughly. I hadn't heard about it before.
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by ramseynasser 13y ago
Do you mean the interface of the website, or how you use it on your phone?
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by ramseynasser 13y ago
These are all great ideas. Case insensitivity has come up a few times and it's an easy fix. We should have it in soon!
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by ramseynasser 13y ago
I've been using the Motofone for three years now and I love it. The texting doesn't bother me either. It's also the lowest common denominator of phones that call and text, so we test all our dumb apps against it.
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An App Platform for Dumb Phones(dumbsto.re)
144 points by ramseynasser 13y ago|47 comments
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by ramseynasser 13y ago
Geoffrey and Alex are super sharp hackers and awesome people. Here's a video of them demonstrating the project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnBb1wmHj5k
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by ramseynasser 14y ago
Brilliant! I love how using the ten hundred words makes the text more readable and less readable at the same time. The paragraph on the AST is my favorite.
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by ramseynasser 14y ago
Interesting, where do you get that number?
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by ramseynasser 14y ago
It's my bad. I'll update the write up soon to be more clear.
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by ramseynasser 14y ago
Spoiler Alert: I'm Lebanese ;-)

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