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Write survey of approachability in malleable attempts so far
Conversation with Maya and others on Matrix suggests value in a survey of approachability:
maya kate: Apologies if it isn't strictly relevant, but I wrote up the basics of the TiddlyWiki setup I'd mentioned with plain markdown files after the discussion here. I think there's a more meta conversation that would be interesting in terms of analyzing TW as a case study of failing to be malleable through being unapproachable rather than being locked-down.... but this isn't it J. Ryan Stinnett: Approachability is definitely a challenging thing in this space. Indeed like you said, it would be quite interesting to see a sort of meta-analysis of those challenges. For example, Smalltalk and its ilk are can be hard to get into because they are closed worlds which you must construct things inside to derive any benefit, so there's quite a high barrier to overcome at first. With systems like TW, it seems there are many foreign concepts and new ways of thinking required that pose a different kind of obstacle to getting started.