Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle

Why HN readers recommended it

It is HN's go-to recommendation for the case that programming environments should give instant feedback, and it appears in nearly every thread on live coding, visual programming or developer tools.

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

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Rui Oliveira

Topic

live programming and immediate feedback

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

12

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2013–2025

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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• Is this related to Bret Victor's stuff? My mind was blown when I saw this video 2 years ago, and I can't help but see similarities here: [VIDEO]

• Probably not exactly what you need, but as far as inspiration is concerned, it doesn't get much better than this: [VIDEO] Check out Bret Victor's talks in general (worrydream.com). He is quite interesting.

• I think most here have already seen it, but I find that Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle talk[1] is one of the best I've seen. I re-watch it every so often to help prevent my thinking from falling into a rut. When developing software as …