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Comment by borplk | Hacker News Reader

Great to see Isomorf here. I have commented multiple times about it before in the context of the next generation of programming languages (or more generally, moving away from plaintext).

Here's a relevant one just 5 days ago under "What next?":

> The elephant in the room is graduating beyond plaintext (projectional editor, model-based editor).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15053260

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Thanks! We've seen your mentions, and we appreciate your enthusiasm. We clearly have similar visions for next generation development stacks.

We'd love to get your feedback and discuss in more detail! We think that even beyond the non-plaintext representation, an IDE married with storage can enable a lot of powerful analytical features and services.

Do you have any recommendations for where else we can find a good audience for this? Any other communities talking about this direction for dev tools?

Sadly I'm not aware of an organised community around this concept. There should be one!

"Intentional programming" is also a good keyword to look for.

https://lobste.rs/

would be a good place to post as well

Thanks. Hadn't heard of that one. Seems like we need an invite. Would you be up for inviting us?

I actually don't have an account myself, I just read.

But I may be able to get one, I'll check.

No worries, we were able to get accounts. It seems like an awesome community! We posted and have gotten a great response. Lots of encouragement and good feedback. There was even some talk of Intentional Programming and Charles Simonyi, which I'm sure you'll appreciate. Happy to extend you an invitation if you want one.

https://lobste.rs/s/kiva0w/structured_cloud_ide_designed_aro...

Thanks. Good to see the discussion there.

My friend and fellow HNer Miguel invited both of us a little while ago. I just joined too.

Come on Lamdu Gitter, the Lamdu team also wanted to set up a community site for non-plaintext programming.

FYI, this led to the creation of https://www.reddit.com/r/nosyntax/

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