Having someone type at a laptop is so boring to watch, it totally kills the mood.
I'd rather have them manipulate lego like bricks on a physical screen or even write on a chalkboard...
Something has to be better than this
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[1] https://100r.co/site/orca.html [2] https://youtu.be/fhYi958qqac
Perhaps the program designer wants people to see actual coding as an artistic expression, which of course all real programmers know is very true, and not as some nerdy boring thing that lets-face-it…many non-programmers think of it.
That’s why personally I love the idea of the real time collaboration additions that are coming online these days. Like what could be better to promote coding then seeing a couple of people go fucking off sitting behind keyboards making interesting music together?
So we'd be watching someone simultaneously live code/play music and live code their interface.
Personally, I'd rather let them code the interface off stage and watch the live performance. After all, using the interface is live coding, but using the pre-built DSL.
In some ways, sonic Pi is already a higher order interface than whatever language it's written in.
I am mostly talking about the way of inputting the code though. Having someone bent over a laptop is fairly disgraceful.. Maybe people said the same when knob-turning DJs appeared.