bret

IMO bret is a truly revolutionary thinker in the field of CS, really a genius of our time.

Explained Visually (EV) is an experiment in making hard ideas intuitive inspired the work of Bret Victor's Explorable Explanations.

So the Bret Victor style of live programming probably isn't supportable (without changes to be model/runtime).

I wonder how far off TempleOS is to implementing the kid of environment envisioned by Bret Victor?

I'm starting to feel like Bret spends more time saying what's wrong with things than providing solutions.

It reminded me a bit of Bret Victor's drawing tool[1] too.

Along with everything else Bret Victor has done.

What you're saying essentially is that the only times digestion of input would benefit from the things Bret Victor talks about is when those inputs are others' output.

I would also add Bret Victor to the list too.

Bret mentioned this in his "Media for thinking unthinkable" talk that Mathematical notation itself is a great tool for making mathematical structure visible.

With that in mind, I would also recommend Evan Miller's comment's on Bret Victor's "Kill Math" article called "Don't Kill Math".

E.g., the oscillator schema which Bret displayed and then analyzed had to be first created, and to "record a thought" scribbling on paper a shape of a transistor is likely faster than, say, dragging it from an electronic components library, which first has to be ready for that.

Bret expresses uneasiness about accepting that the web and the world that uses it should have permanent memory.

Bret Taylor, one of the co-founders of FriendFeed, was CTO @ Facebook after the acquisition.

Bret Victor's work, LightTable, Swift Playground and others proved that small improvements are possible.