Alexander Bandukwala 🦋

Pursuing the Future of Computing. PhD student at @UMichCSE. Worse is worse. @[email protected]

[Alexander Bandukwala 🦋 @abanduk]

@defnotbeka Type holes, first class versioning, built-in API expand-contract, ability to deprecate/inline code into client code-bases, report usage statistics of APIs, facilities for state migration, no global namespaces, some form of differential programming for custom automatic patches

[Gucci Belt Dell @urkle91]

Lebron is 30, this fuckery won't go on for much longer, thank god

[Alexander Bandukwala 🦋 @abanduk]

Still looking for some participants if anyone is interested

[Alexander Bandukwala 🦋 @abanduk]

I’m looking for participants for a paid user study on a prototype system for tabular programming (programming with tables / data frames). 2 hours • $50 Visa prepaid card Hoping to finish sessions by March 13. Details + sign up in 🧵 Reposts appreciated! 🙏

[Alexander Bandukwala 🦋 @abanduk]

Your participation will involve completing programming tasks using the prototype. We’re especially looking for folks with experience in statically typed functional languages (OCaml, Haskell, Scala, F#, Rust, etc.).

Sign up: https://t.co/n8XuvsUcTe

[Alexander Bandukwala 🦋 @abanduk]

I’m looking for participants for a paid user study on a prototype system for tabular programming (programming with tables / data frames). 2 hours • $50 Visa prepaid card Hoping to finish sessions by March 13. Details + sign up in 🧵 Reposts appreciated! 🙏

[Hunter Leath @jhleath]

an interesting update: the team is starting to move away from AI coding completely (devin/claude/etc) because it's so much harder to review the AI code than writing things themselves

[Alexander Bandukwala 🦋 @abanduk]

@maulana_pcfre @disconcision Let it be

[Alexander Bandukwala 🦋 @abanduk]

@SadboyLocal @disconcision Is nothing sacred

[andrew blinn @disconcision]

/someone/ filled a bug report just because hazel let them write this perfectly unobjectionable syntax

[Alexander Bandukwala 🦋 @abanduk]

@LongTimeNoDuck @disconcision The problem isn't reading it's if you press a space next to the variables they autoexpand to if statements

[Alexander Bandukwala 🦋 @abanduk]

@Keleesssss @HSVSphere @steinerkelvin @_hakagie @disconcision So in order to type `if` as a variable you need to complete the surrounding context and prefill any whitespace then go back and insert the text and navigate away without typing so it doesn't get remolded. And if anyone inserts whitespace there it re-expands to an if expression.

[Alexander Bandukwala 🦋 @abanduk]

@Keleesssss @HSVSphere @steinerkelvin @_hakagie @disconcision So there is a unmolded node that gets turned into a partial AST but this happens from inferring context based on the inserted characters. So if you type `if` and then write a space to the right of it it gets molded into a if expression.

[Alexander Bandukwala 🦋 @abanduk]

@Keleesssss @HSVSphere @steinerkelvin @_hakagie @disconcision Yeah, I just think the delineation between parsing and structured editing here is somewhat difficult since everything is inferred from text. You could imagine the same situation with an incremental reconstructing parser that operated on text patches.

[Alexander Bandukwala 🦋 @abanduk]

@Keleesssss @HSVSphere @steinerkelvin @_hakagie @disconcision Even if you’re not you’re interpreting it as a sequence of text post hoc, you’re interpreting it using a sequence of character updates that get manifested as structural changes. So you have an AST that is argue many users could not figure out how to insert.

[Alexander Bandukwala 🦋 @abanduk]

@Keleesssss @HSVSphere @steinerkelvin @_hakagie @disconcision As /someone/ it’s a textually entered structured editor so it’s still confusing because you can’t type this straightforwardly

[Alexander Bandukwala 🦋 @abanduk]

@disconcision dreams are memories

[David Moon @dm_0ney]

I am once more seeking participants for a user study. We'll be evaluating a prototype code editor that completes your text with placeholders for missing tokens expected by the language. Here are a couple vids motivating the editor+study.

Details in thread. RTs appreciated! 🙏

[David Moon @dm_0ney]

what's in a selection?

[Alexander Bandukwala 🦋 @abanduk]

@disconcision Does this work with go to defn

[andrew blinn @disconcision]

honey i juiced the caret