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Episode 45: Using Code as a Tool for Creative Expression with Pine Wu (Part 1)

Key Points From This Episode:

  • An intro into Pine, his experiences at Microsoft, and the work he does in Visual Studio Code.
  • What leading a nomadic life means to Pine, and the things he enjoys learning as a freelancer.
  • Pine’s ideas about not only being a programmer but wanting to study graphic design too.
  • An intro into Vetur, Pine’s project that provides autocomplete functionality for Vue files.
  • How Pine has expanded Vetur’s functionality beyond autocomplete and diagnostic errors.
  • The beginnings of Vetur: Pine’s love of Vue which wasn’t compatible with VS Code.
  • How Pine developed early Vetur versions by copy-pasting and modifying parts of existing support from other platforms.
  • The story of Vetur’s huge early success after the creator of Repl tweeted about it.
  • Humor in Pine’s talks and how his non-sugarcoated approach plays into this. Pine’s rapid prototyping tool and how it fits in with his passion for enabling expressive coding.
  • Perspectives on the idea that tools shape how we think and what we build.
  • Pine’s thoughts on future Vetur upgrades: A type renaming tool and more.

Tweetables:

  • “If you are editing a TypeScript or JavaScript file in your Visual Studio Code, you see that after you press a dot you see a lot of autocompletions. Those are powered by what is called a language server and a language server basically analyzes the whole code base, breaks your code into abstract syntax trees, analyzes them, and then gives you autocompletion and diagnostic errors. Vetur basically does that for Vue files.” — @octref [0:07:34]
  • “As a programmer, my passion is not writing enterprise-level or large scale Vue apps. My interest is more in the expressive side of coding.” — @octref [0:17:01]
  • “Without a microscope, you are unable to work with bacteria. Without a telescope, you are unable to work with galaxies. It’s only with these tools that you can perceive certain things.” — @octref [0:22:10]

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Special Guest: Pine Wu.

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