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What if the developer tooling stack was just this
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what if we reduced the entire damn developer tooling stack down to just this. if tokens are a fuel, then what is the engine? what if the engine could self-evolve, live whilst powering down the highway?
or in cs50 style with diagrams with worked examples.
https://gist.github.com/ghuntley/b8e28634090c51895d7972ff6a7c5619
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(defun run (goal)
(loop until (invariants) ; done when the heap says so
for form = (ask-model (observe goal)) ; re-read, then one form
do (assert (not (locked-p form))) ; the kernel is not the world
(let ((snap (snapshot)))
(restart-case (eval form) ; menu stays live until picked
(abort () (restore snap)))))) ; bad commit, old heap, next
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