"Cursorless: A spoken language for editing code" by Pokey Rule (Strange Loop 2023)
If you could design a spoken language from scratch for editing code, how would it look? What would be your nouns? Would they be tokens? Functions? Lines? What would be your verbs, your adjectives, and your adverbs?
Cursorless is one answer to these questions: a spoken language designed for maximally efficient code editing by voice. Cursorless leverages the tree-sitter real-time parser to enable high-level, "smart" code manipulations while retaining the flexibility to use "dumb" primitives like tokens, lines, delimiter pairs, and regexes when necessary.
Learn how a handful of simple abstractions - actions, modifiers, marks, and scopes - empower Cursorless users to create powerful and concise command chains that would leave even the most seasoned vim user drooling on their keyboard.
Pokey Rule
Creator of Cursorless
@PokeyRule
Pokey Rule is the creator and lead maintainer of Cursorless. He releases all of his code under the MIT license and relies on donations from users to sustain the project. Prior to working on Cursorless, Pokey managed a machine learning team at Globality. He studied programming languages and human-computer interaction at Stanford University.
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Recorded Sept 22, 2023 at Strange Loop 2023 in St. Louis, MO.
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