[HN Gopher] Rety - Live coding without the stress
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       Rety - Live coding without the stress
        
       Author : skilled
       Score  : 61 points
       Date   : 2022-07-14 06:17 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | usrn wrote:
       | You probably could have just stepped through an ex script. Also
       | it's not really _live_ coding if it 's pre recorded.
        
         | goatcode wrote:
         | Agreed. You lose all the benefits of live coding, imo. This is
         | a way to fake live coding for an image of capability, but
         | there's no point. You may as well just scroll through your
         | already-typed code, if you're going to use this.
        
           | scotty79 wrote:
           | > You may as well just scroll through your already-typed
           | code, if you're going to use this.
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           | I don't think so. There's something very different between
           | seeing as code appears and just looking at the prewritten
           | block of it trying to focus on the parts you are supposed to
           | focus on.
        
       | Wowfunhappy wrote:
       | > It offered the same progressive development which is the
       | primary benefit of live coding, but none of the fumbling, delays,
       | or mistakes that often come with it.
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       | Is the fumbling necessarily bad? I actually think it's important
       | for my students to see me making "stupid" mistakes, and to see
       | the process of fixing them. (I can see how this might be
       | different at a conference versus a class.)
        
         | sexy_panda wrote:
         | It's nice for people like me that fear doing mistakes during
         | talks, they may need to give at some point.
         | 
         | I could see myself scripting a talk and run it, while focusing
         | on explanations.
         | 
         | I don't feel very comfortable getting all the attention. Having
         | a thing less to worry is definitely adding some peace to it.
        
           | goatcode wrote:
           | Would that not cut off the possibility of live questions? I
           | always prefer learning from teachers who stop & start, and
           | are flexible enough to incorporate difference from the script
           | in their demonstrations.
        
       | ushakov wrote:
       | how is this useful outside of IDEs?
        
         | difosfor wrote:
         | As she mentions this enables pre-recording live coding to be
         | used while giving or looking at presentations later. I.e: on a
         | live coding page that's part of the web page based
         | presentation, not in an IDE. She's a web and CSS champion so I
         | imagine that's why she likes to take this approach.
        
       | L3viathan wrote:
       | If you use a terminal-based editor, you can also use
       | asciinema.org.
        
       | tpoacher wrote:
       | there's a basic linux utility or hack that allows you to type on
       | the keyboard, but instead of what you type, each keystroke simply
       | prints the next character from a predetermined string.
       | 
       | the idea is you can mash up keys like in films and have text
       | appear af if you were typing properly.
       | 
       | can anyone remember what this is? I've been racking my brain with
       | no success
        
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