How do you chose a particular programming language, a coding style, a development environment and ecosystem, an infrastructure where to run the code, and so on?
These are **not just technical choices**, but rather coding contingencies.
These contingencies are situated in precise economical, cultural, creative, political, and technical contexts. Programming then is not just sharing code, but sharing context. It's providing a perspective to look at the world before attempting to get some grip onto it with a script.
How to offer a point of view through the lens of software?
Who get to participate in this process of making meaning?
How to create a discourse for the code to inhabit?
The critical and theoretical research will be weaved around the actual documentations, in order to create a discourse and annotate the development of this practice. ???
How do you choose a particular programming language, a coding paradigm, a development environment, an infrastructure where to run the code, and so on? These are not just technical choices, but rather coding contingencies.
Personal decisions, trending technologies, curiosity and boredom, to name a few. A talk on esolangs as form of frugality, a collegue passionate about live coding that drags you to an algorave night, a crypto-boyfriend, the tech stack of a company, a drastic turn of events, etc. etc.
These contingencies are situated in contexts.
Programming then is not just sharing code, but sharing context.
It's providing a point of view and a perspective to look at the world, before attempting to get some grip onto it with a script.
Aknowledge documentation as crossroad for different actors, as intersection between code, machines, developers, users. Articulate it as a vantage point from where to reason about software.
