Show HN: Edsger – A handwritten Clojure REPL for the reMarkable 2

A developer showed off Edsger, a way to handwrite code directly on a reMarkable 2 tablet and get answers back like a little command line for your pen. In plain English: it turns a device most people use for notes and reading into a gloriously nerdy playground where scribbles become live computer instructions. And the crowd immediately did what the internet does best: turn a cool demo into a mini culture war.

On one side were the chaos-lovers and gadget romantics. One commenter basically summed up the whole vibe with “Because you can and it’s fun”, which might as well be the official slogan of every weird internet invention ever. Another admitted the project was so charming it became “a reason to get reMarkable” at all. That’s the dream for any creator: make something so delightfully unnecessary that people suddenly want the hardware.

But then came the brutally efficient opposition. The sharpest heckle was just “y tho” — two words, maximum damage. It captured the eternal reaction to side projects like this: is this brilliant tinkering, or tech people building a very expensive way to do something nobody asked for? Meanwhile, one eagle-eyed viewer added a splash of accidental comedy by asking if foo(42) output 44, sending a tiny wave of “wait, did we just catch a math crime?” energy through the thread. In other words, this was peak internet: awe, confusion, temptation, and one suspicious number.