I find literate coding to be one of the best ways to learn. I wish more folks did this. My big takeaways from this are the existence of Tango and static_http_cache.
I wish there was more tooling support for literate coding. What are some IDEs, editor plugins, etc. that facilitate literate coding?
For this project, I didn’t have any special editor support, but I did heavily rely on entr to trigger converting Markdown to HTML whenever I saved in my editor, and livereload to trigger my browser to reload whenever the HTML file was updated.
It may seem minor, since neither operation is time-consuming, but before I found those, there were so many times I’d forget to do either or both steps because I was busy thinking about how best to phrase something. It’s been said many times before, but lowering the iteration time of any creative endeavour is always immensely positive.
I find literate coding to be one of the best ways to learn. I wish more folks did this. My big takeaways from this are the existence of Tango and static_http_cache.
I wish there was more tooling support for literate coding. What are some IDEs, editor plugins, etc. that facilitate literate coding?
For this project, I didn’t have any special editor support, but I did heavily rely on entr to trigger converting Markdown to HTML whenever I saved in my editor, and livereload to trigger my browser to reload whenever the HTML file was updated.
It may seem minor, since neither operation is time-consuming, but before I found those, there were so many times I’d forget to do either or both steps because I was busy thinking about how best to phrase something. It’s been said many times before, but lowering the iteration time of any creative endeavour is always immensely positive.