Handwriting Programs in J (2017)
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P.s. Wow, I was literally just posting this!
I don't want VR headsets. I don't want AI voice assistants. I don't want robots. I just want this.
Sadly nobody else is clamoring for it...
I'd buy it if it had some aggressive OCR and could translate into a REPL
So yes, theoretically you can turn the reMarkable 2 into a emacs lisp machine, although it would take a considerable amount of time.
I haven't read up on the reMarkable Paper Pro, but I think the dev ecosystem for that is very much alive too.
[1] https://blog.redteam-pentesting.de/2021/remarkable-encryptio...
It always felt like one of those things that could be extremely neat once it "clicks" for you, but I have never been able to get over the initial hump of it. I like to think I'm able to adapt to arcane programming syntax fairly quickly, but J kind of broke my brain and it never became natural to me.
Still, I do think I should probably just power through it and actually learn it, just because it feels like a loose thread I need to pull. Forth too, actually.