Hi Paul--
> I wonder if you had or could make something like this: > > https://jgthms.com/web-design-in-4-minutes/ > > that shows the value of caffeine in a way being placed into the > default dev environment + readme doesn't. Yes indeed, I expect to produce such material. > It seems like your work would be really useful to me as a person that > writes web apps in Smalltalk but I have no idea what "extra" I can do > with it. The extra thing is writing web apps in a livecoding style, from within a web browser. I wanted this for my own web app development, as an alternative to the mainstream edit-build-run cycle. > I've watched the youtube presentation and navigated through the > impress presentation on your site and it too quickly introduces tons > of concepts of what you can do but nothing about why anyone should > want to do those things or how to put them together into something a > user would use once a developer has made something. Right, that presentation is just a bunch of demos of works in progress, showing some things that are possible. They're meant to inspire the viewer to imagine what she might do with those abilities, rather than convince the viewer to adopt anything yet. > I also think the dynamic nature of what you're making is cool but it > seems like it adds another level of difficulty in making things > comprehensible to/usable for/accessible by end users. Ultimately, I think making most of the external tools and build steps unnecessary, and enabling direct manipulation, will make things more comprehensible. > Its clear something is there I just have no idea how to unlock the > value for myself or current users and/or theoretical future users. I think it's just the classic value proposition of having a runtime environment in which further development and debugging can occur. For me, the greatest value is being to fix a problem at a point that took a long time to reach, then just continuing the usage session (retaining all that built-up state) rather than starting over. In highly interactive environments like VR, this is critical. -C -- Craig Latta Black Page Digital Amsterdam :: San Francisco cr...@blackpagedigital.com +31 6 2757 7177 + 1 415 287 3547
