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Why are you on site called "hacker news"?

JoBrad 7y ago
Documentation encourages hacking, not the other way around. People are usually substituting previously-learned docs when there isn’t any. Especially for a language, though, understanding the intended use and the direction the language is growing helps prevent undocumented or unintended usage, and early obsolescence. Edit: seems like some basic syntax docs could be generated from their source, actually. https://github.com/mun-lang/mun/tree/master/crates/mun_syntax/src https://github.com/mun-lang/mun/tree/master/crates/mun_synta...
- skrebbel 7y ago
  Oh come on, people can't show off their projects anymore until they're perfect? This habit of immediately searching for the flaws of whatever gets posted is not helping anyone. If you want polished well presented shit, go to techcrunch or something.
  - HelloNurse 7y ago
    Of course, but this project is like a car maker inviting the press to present a new model and showing a couple different windshields ("we aren't sure about the angle") and not even a picture. There are standards: a car needs complete prototypes, and a programming language needs something that it does better than the competition and a decent explanation of how cool it is. Every user will prefer Turing completeness (first order functons with no control structures aren't enough) to hot reloading.
akerro 7y ago
Let's say technical documentation says >Message content is ended with \0 byte, followed by a digit between 0-10 describing font colour. What hacker does is pass `\0\0` to check if null byte is valid digit or painfully crashes system an if invalid values are handled correctly when error handling mechanisms aren't described in documentation. I think what you mean by hacking is closer to RE.
dang 7y ago
Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes this place even worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- skrebbel 7y ago
  Good point, thanks.

Documentation encourages hacking, not the other way around. People are usually substituting previously-learned docs when there isn’t any. Especially for a language, though, understanding the intended use and the direction the language is growing helps prevent undocumented or unintended usage, and early obsolescence. Edit: seems like some basic syntax docs could be generated from their source, actually. https://github.com/mun-lang/mun/tree/master/crates/mun_syntax/src https://github.com/mun-lang/mun/tree/master/crates/mun_synta...

skrebbel 7y ago
Oh come on, people can't show off their projects anymore until they're perfect? This habit of immediately searching for the flaws of whatever gets posted is not helping anyone. If you want polished well presented shit, go to techcrunch or something.
- HelloNurse 7y ago
  Of course, but this project is like a car maker inviting the press to present a new model and showing a couple different windshields ("we aren't sure about the angle") and not even a picture. There are standards: a car needs complete prototypes, and a programming language needs something that it does better than the competition and a decent explanation of how cool it is. Every user will prefer Turing completeness (first order functons with no control structures aren't enough) to hot reloading.

akerro 7y ago

Let's say technical documentation says >Message content is ended with \0 byte, followed by a digit between 0-10 describing font colour. What hacker does is pass `\0\0` to check if null byte is valid digit or painfully crashes system an if invalid values are handled correctly when error handling mechanisms aren't described in documentation. I think what you mean by hacking is closer to RE.

dang 7y ago

Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes this place even worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

skrebbel 7y ago
Good point, thanks.