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You're welcome to think the future of programming consists of typing into text documents; I think it looks more like using a spreadsheet.

You're welcome to think the compiler and syntax are important; I think it's visualizations.

You're welcome to think the future is a grandchild of C; I think we haven't even begun the journey yet.

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Crap like this makes me actively not want to listen to you and reflects badly on Kaya. If you want to effectively promote something, give an honest account of its advantages and drawbacks and let people judge for themselves whether it's going to be the future of programming or not. The presenter of this talk understands that and doesn't try to oversell it, simply describing Kaya as "declarative reactive"; you should respect this and not make their work look crankish because of the way you, not they, choose to present it.

I suspect he is the presenter. But agree totally - the tone of the talk works 100% better.

You're going to want to work on your communication if you want to evangelize your new tool and not alienate people. For the rest of the world, the value of Kaya is not a given and you're going to get a lot of practice explaining it.

I'm 'people' as well and am not alienated. Nothing to stop you offering a mini-lecture on PR but for myself, rather you didn't. I can make up my own mind on Kaya as presented.

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