I believe that's mostly for fun. Coding agents wouldn't need to interact via the same interfaces humans use, they'd be given a tool to read and write files and they'd be fine with that.

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zero_bias 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Unfortunately, this characterizes the entire project: "cool" examples with no practical utility. Meanwhile, the language itself is incredibly strange (functions via patterns are an example of strange language choice), extremely slow, and very unstable.

In short, it's developing in the wrong direction.

I switched from Mathematica to Matlab in my work; it was the best investment of time in the entire project

	▲	lieuwex 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		This function is user contributed. It's not official.

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fnfs2000 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

They're literally using diff/patch under the covers, at least the setup i'm currently using.

	▲	andai 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Did you get them working with diff syntax? I couldn't figure it out, so I just tried a bunch of agentic programs, found a few that actually worked, and it turned out they all use search/replace strings. There's probably other ways to do it but it seems basically everyone settled on that. I've been trying that with smaller models and had to make some adjustments (e.g. they all really wanted to include the filename twice). So I just make a small tweak and bam suddenly I can edit code with small fast cheap models.