Release announcement for “cake_0.10.0.1217_alpha”, which is more stable than any other release.
Most of all, this release is about making the developer experience more cohesive, and “orthogonal”. Method calls and return values look more or less the same everywhere, and when you grok how Cake hangs together, it becomes easier to make web apps.
I am becoming a bit more expressive with it.
I looked at Perl yesterday, using my Linux laptop. Without perldoc or man pages, it’s difficult broaching a new programming language. When there’s no editor with emacs keybindings, it gets harder. Vi is hard for me. Playing Nethack’s been making it easier lately. I know how to navigate, and the modefulness is becoming less of an enigma. But still, it ain’t like emacs yet. I’m used to jed, a lightweight editor with emacs bindings. (It’s a Debian package, so just apt-get it. That’s what I should do, when I get that laptop online again.)
Now, see you. Been nice writing for you.
Update: just installed the Windows binary for jed. It’s cute, and it’s a lot faster to work with than a terminal window on a remote computer. I don’t know yet if I’ll use it locally.