Interactive programming Flappy Bird in ClojureScript

Why HN readers recommended it

It is the canonical demo HN people cite for live interactive development and hot reloading, as proof the workflow is real and not smoke and mirrors.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Bruce Hauman

Topic

interactive programming

Format

demo

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

6

HN mentions in dataset

9

Recommendation years in dataset

2015–2020

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I don't disagree with the article, but I also don't know that pushing the boundaries of interactivity and "fun" are relegated to academia. Iterating on what makes things fun is (probably) highly unscientific and might be better left to people more focused on it directly, …

• This is called interactive development; if you liked this, check these out: * Interactive programming Flappy Bird in ClojureScript: [VIDEO] * Live-editing React app without refresh: [LINK] These demos aren't smoke and mirrors, I and many others do interactive development, 8 hours a day, writing …

• If you're starting from from scratch it looks really awesome. No callback hell and in believable tooling. Watch these talks to see what I mean about tooling: Few minutes [VIDEO] Longer [LINK]