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pgbovine on March 29, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Flex

code release isn't always the most important. bret victor never released code to any of his prototypes, but the ideas conveyed in his interactive essays have inspired many hackers to come up with their own solutions, or to adapt his ideas into their systems. e.g.,

http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/

good ideas live a lot longer than code.

justncase80 on March 29, 2017 | [–]

In this case it is actually released and you can run this tool, and it is actually pretty awesome:

https://github.com/harc/ohm

seanmcdirmid on March 29, 2017 | [–]

I'm still inspired by that essay 6 years later.

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