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   josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 02:47:36 JST josef

   i think i feel similarly about programming language design as i do about architecture. i prefer straightforward, human-scale, vernacular designs that evolve over time in response to the practical, if messy needs of people, over the masterplans of glasswall modernist utopias or imposing neoclassical pastiche. while i am impressed by the stringent engineering requirements of the steel suspension bridge or an impenetrable bunker, i could not imagine it too comfortable to live in one

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 02:47:35 JST clarity flowers

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     @jk oooh yeah I 100% think of programming environments as architectures. I think I want the programming equivalent of japanese wood joinery (comfortable, beautiful, an impractical obsession with craft). That or an earthhome (iconoclastic, jury-rigged together anarchistically, surprisingly functional).

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 02:51:58 JST clarity flowers

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     @jk I think it's the latter at a human scale and when I'm at work it starts feeling like living in one of those new flimsy modern cuboid apartment buildings and I'm not allowed to put any holes in the walls

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     josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 02:51:59 JST josef

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     probably in this analogy javascript might be a 'prefab stick-frame particle-board sprayfoam-insulation' type of style. a tacky and flimsy scourge? or a forgiving and universally-accessible standard successfully serving millions?