Sayid 0.8

Sayid 0.8 is out! It’s the third release since I brought Sayid back from the dead a couple of weeks ago, and it has a clear theme: making the tool easy to pick up. The revival releases were mostly about the engine - bounding the recording, consolidating the API, getting the data out. This one is about the experience. If you’ve ever bounced off Sayid because you couldn’t figure out what to press, or what it was trying to tell you, 0.8 is for you. It started with a bug report Shortly after the revival post, someone reported that pressing c i in the workspace view - “inspect this captured value” - printed Def'd as $s/* and then… nothing. The fix turned out to be a one-liner: Sayid was calling a CIDER function whose signature changed years ago, and nobody had noticed since. Which tells you everything about how many people were actually using that command.1 The one-liner was easy, but the report got under my skin. If the inspector integration could sit broken for years, what else about…