clojureD 2021: "Command & Conquer: Learnings from Decades of Code Editing" by Philippa Markovics
In a quest to make Nextjournal’s editing UI more principled, we looked at the history of LISP editing. What we discovered is a pattern that can make interacting with your app faster, more reliable and more discoverable: contextual commands. This talk will give you a quick tour through historic LISP editing UIs, from the original LISP machine until today’s modern dev environments. It will also introduce you to how we use contextual commands at Nextjournal and how you can make use of them yourself.
In a quest to make Nextjournal’s editing UI more principled, we looked at the history of LISP editing. What we discovered is a pattern that can make interacting with your app faster, more reliable and more discoverable: contextual commands. This talk will give you a quick tour through historic LISP editing UIs, from the original LISP machine until today’s modern dev environments. It will also introduce you to how we use contextual commands at Nextjournal and how you can make use of them yourself.