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zombottoday at 7:03 AM3 repliesview on HN

As always, the real benchmark will be the ability to run Doom.


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ape4today at 8:16 AM

Doom Complete

voidUpdatetoday at 9:42 AM

Can Find and Mkdir write to any kind of graphical output? And take any kind of input?

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TZubiritoday at 3:32 PM

I think in this case it's more of a critique than an accolade. If something that isn't supposed to be a programming language is turing-complete/can run doom, then it means, then it means that it has bloated and some features are too complex for the domain specific functionality.

At some point, these tools solve a specific problem not by actually solving it within its constraints, but by implementing a programming language.

E.g:

First act:Dev makes a tool to schedule calendars, clients are happy.

Second act: client asks for capacity to send mail, dev includes capacity to send mail, another client asks for capacity to send texts, dev adds capacity to send texts

third act: client asks for capacity to send slack messages, dev is tired of these custom requests and thus embeds a configurable language with ifs and thens that allows the clients to connect its calendar tool with whatever messaging platform or with whatever they want.

Boom X calendar tool is turing complete, it's not a compliment, it's a failure mode.