God, my brain couldn’t cope with making music through coding like that. I suppose it’s like a more intuitive version of when I (unsuccessfully) attempted programming music in C64 BASIC when I was a kid
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Like it's one thing showing a couple of sliders on the video but the way everything is sounding so upfront and sitting clean in the mix there must be an encyclopedia's worth of code sitting below it
aug 28, 2025, 10:59 am • 60 1 • view
I need to know why they call it a REPL vs a notebook. It's amazing either way.
aug 31, 2025, 3:24 am • 1 0 • view
REPL is certainly a much older term
aug 31, 2025, 3:43 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah, and I understand that there is a while(true) loop constantly scanning the code. Usually programmers are super specific on terminology tho which is why I asked. Guess I have some reading to do!
aug 31, 2025, 3:48 am • 0 0 • view
When I see notebooks the main differences are: not line/statement oriented, you decide to run a section You get many sections and state between, a document model you can edit, etc And often a data viz element
aug 31, 2025, 3:52 am • 3 0 • view
Right. And she's clearly commenting out code to mute as opposed to clicking run or stop. Notebooks are also more "blocky" like you say. The thing that really got me was the in-line slider.
aug 31, 2025, 4:02 am • 1 0 • view
A notebook is a form of REPL. Think of REPL as the more generic form of a notebook.
aug 31, 2025, 4:17 am • 2 0 • view
RE while(true) loop, basically. Called "event driven programming". There's a part of the application/os that is repeatedly scaning for changes in the code. Same thing with your mouse pointer tracking across the screen, it's just asking the pointer "where are you?" Like a zillion times/sec.
aug 31, 2025, 5:15 am • 1 0 • view
I want to see the #include section
aug 31, 2025, 3:59 pm • 5 0 • view
Me: "But I don't wanna learn JavaScript" Also me: hovering over the download button
sep 1, 2025, 7:50 am • 5 0 • view
Yes, exactly! Like working with the SID chip in a C64!
aug 31, 2025, 4:23 am • 2 0 • view