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   Panicz Maciej Godek (paniczgodek@functional.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 10:08:24 JST Panicz Maciej Godek

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   I have been working on the current code base of GRASP since the beginning of 2022 (I think I wrote the parser in the fall of 2021), but I created a separate repository for it at the beginning of 2023.

   It's a bit frustrating that - despite all the effort that I've put into the development - it still isn't a well polished app, but on the other hand, the experiences that I've been having while working on the Advent of Code solutions were rather positive - and although I think there's still a few bugs that I need to fix before I start nagging people to try and use it, to me peronally the experience has been rather satisfying, and I already started thinking about uploading it to F-Droid (which, from what I've read, is a process that will probably take some time)

   I will try to write a summary of the development for this month and year (and the plans for the next year) tomorrow, because I need to go to sleep now.

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     Panicz Maciej Godek (paniczgodek@functional.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 10:08:25 JST Panicz Maciej Godek

     My first attempt at what would become #GRASP was in September 2016, when I was working on a structure editor running in the SLAYER framework that I was developing at the time. It wasn't called GRASP yet, though - I called it "Butterfly", because of the XKCD strip about "real programmers", but I didn't get very far.

     SLAYER was based on Guile, and I ended up implementing something akin to Racket's Big Bang (which I didn't know about at that time), and I have spent considerable effort to find a way to represent stuff in Scheme in a nice way (I developed a library for working with lists of interspersed keywords and values, but I was never happy about that).

     I think I may have been on a trajectory to build something similar to @disconcision 's Fructure, but I broke my laptop, and it took me a while to recover the latest changes from the disk (which I think eventually happened in 2018; until then, I was working on a small Intel Atom-based netbook that I borrowed from a friend, and on which I wrote "A Pamphlet Against R").

     Then I started to look for a nice way of putting rectangles into other rectangles, which took the form of "The Draggable Rectangle Challenge" that I published on Quora (I was a Quora addict at that time)

     https://eidolon-language.quora.com/Draggable-rectangle-challenge-part-I-the-introduction

     I wrote a highly idiosyncratic solution in Racket, which nevertheless had its charm, but it ran terribly slowly on my friend's Raspberry Pi, and I haven't figured out any way to run it on Android.

     The editor window title was "GRASP LIMB", where "GRASP" stands - of course - for GRAphical Scheme Programming, and "LIMB" is meant to be a pun on LISP's backronym "Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses"; "LIMB" was meant to stand for "Lots of Intriguing Movable Boxes".

     I started figuring out a way to build Android applications - I had to buy additional 2GB of RAM to my laptop to make Android Studio to run, and when (after breaking another laptop) I finally found a way to build Android apps in Termux, without Android Studio, it turned out to be a huge productivity booster to me - I could finally do programming in places where I wouldn't be able to use the laptop, and this setup prompted some of the design of GRASP.

     I made the first version on/for the phone in the spring of 2020, mainly on the toilet (and it shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmZ39IfElzg), and in 2021 I wrote what I thought would be the "final version" - but in both cases, the development eventually stalled.

     screwlisp repeated this.