Yeah — it’s like a fire drill to keep @seancorfield on his toes. 🙂 😆

The world has been on fire, non-stop, since Thursday evening... thankyouverymuch 🔥

The Smalltalk system was pretty amazing even back in the '90s when I had one on my Mac at home.

I love how easy it is to make things interactive!

The complete, top-down ability to introspect and manipulate any item in the IDE, using the same language you're using the IDE to write, makes for a very powerful system.

@seancorfield Totally — watching Tudor build things in GT blew my mind, and made me think what it would take to do something similar in Clojure…. To be able to render graphics in the IDE seemed so difficult without having to fire up a JS window or Swing window or whatever. Which is why I was so stunned when I discovered Portal could render an image. The ability for him to compose UI elements in the Playground was also amazing to me.

I would hold off on a POC as this would be a pretty big change. I do want to add user defined shortcuts via var metadata 👌

what do you mean by var metadata? something like:

^{portal/shortcut "ctrl+1"}
{:some :data :to :display}

Something like:

(defn my-function {:shortcut #{"control" "1"}} [] ...)

ah so shortcuts for sci functions that you register with the ui? that also sounds interesting as well, nice idea! i was thinking of a way to mark data so i can jump around easier between a few different values, but yours is more general

This would also work for runtime registered functions. I do think it could be interesting to tag values with metadata and just that to jump to them :thinking_face:

yeah, i’d kind of like it both ways. sending it tagged from the runtime to the ui, but also tagging it from the ui if it’s already in there. i’ve been thinking about the way RTS games do it, where you “bookmark” a group of units with ctrl+number and then jump to it by pressing the number.

Also reminds me of vim's mark system

i just learned how to exit vim, so yeah … 😅