2022-01-20 10:51:19 <eli_oat > I am loving retroforth.org's redesign!

2022-01-20 10:52:28 :)

2022-01-20 10:53:00 Here's an asciinema recording of the current state of the new listener: https://asciinema.org/a/463044

2022-01-20 10:56:02 <eli_oat > oh wow!

2022-01-20 10:57:53 it's still got a long way to go, but is progressing pretty smoothly. Output is managed by Retro, captured in a text output buffer; the status bar has the cursor coords, free ram, and current data stack values

2022-01-20 10:59:03 <eli_oat > I love that -- a thing that occasionally draws me to something like racket and factor is the first-class dev tooling. I love that this is bringing that level of attention to retro, but in a very retro style, if that makes any kinda sense

2022-01-20 10:59:43 <eli_oat > last night I looked back at some of my recent blog posts, and realized that very quickly retro has become my go-to language when I write an example program ... at first I wondered if that'd make things less than useful for other folks, but then I figured it is fun for me, and, ultimately that is what the blog is about.

2022-01-20 11:01:14 I like using my own tooling; it's great to have a system that can be used without needing to worry about external dependencies breaking things

2022-01-20 11:06:40 <eli_oat > 100%

2022-01-20 11:07:18 <eli_oat > I've been fantasizing about a job that would allow for that...or like...returning to cooking

2022-01-20 11:18:13 oh wow <3 that listener

2022-01-20 11:18:53 the stack visualizer is clutch

2022-01-20 11:19:26 <eli_oat > it will save me from doing so many dup s:puts

2022-01-20 11:19:43 dump-stack nl

2022-01-20 11:20:05 what's the first pair of values down there on that line? 0,0 -> 0,1 etc

2022-01-20 11:22:14 coordinates for the output cursor

2022-01-20 11:22:18 row, column

2022-01-20 11:30:40 <rick_carlino1> 🎉

2022-01-20 11:38:46 ah, i see

2022-01-20 11:38:50 yeah that's great, i love it