Livelymerge and Effective Expressiveness
AI Summary
Ink & Switch shares updates on the Livelymerge project, which places an entire program's state and code into a shared collaborative database using Automerge. The lab also introduces 'effective expressiveness' as a term to evaluate how naturally a programming language expresses solutions for specific tasks, moving beyond Turing completeness.
Key Takeaways
- The Livelymerge project builds on the Smalltalk lineage and Lively Kernel to store complete program state and code inside Automerge databases.
- Automerge internals were recently rewritten atop the Hexane columnar store, improving load time and memory usage.
- Effective expressiveness focuses on how naturally a language lets developers express solutions to specific problems in practice.
Why it matters
Exploring local-first software, CRDTs like Automerge, and shared program state opens new architectural paradigms for collaborative live programming environments and decentralized systems.
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