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Some may find this interesting: https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/issues/4 https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/issues/4

by IE6 5y ago

xeromal 5y ago
Thanks for sharing! What a fun read!
humbleharbinger 5y ago
A fun read indeed. I wonder about the insistence on keeping it less than 20k loc? Is that the developer basically saying "this problem can and should be solved in less than 20k lines?"
- Cthulhu_ 5y ago
  Looks like it; the author also says he sticks to certain paradigms like an indentation style I've not seen in the wild before and making as many things as possible 'const'. I don't mind, I can respect people having Strong Opinions, it's an improvement over having too weak opinions which lead to inconsistencies in a codebase.
  - chris37879 5y ago
    I'm guilty of the const / final thing... it really does help in the language I use for work all the time, but that's because its compiler and analyzer are built around using those hints to do static analysis in my editor.
Arainach 5y ago
The author's views on code seem rather opinionated in general. Their thoughts on internationalization in particular go against all best practices in the pursuit of clean code dogma: https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/tree/master/WinDirStat https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/tree/master/WinDirS... I'm amused that the author rants about the importance of being able to easily analyze code and then wants to produce (presumably) a different binary per language to analyze all over. Their commit messages are also rather colorful. This is an interesting project, but seemingly not someone I'd enjoy working with.
zombittack 5y ago
fwiw, we went from in-memory to sqlite and had massive performance gains for a language model trie we were working with in an app. Best part: cross-platform! I just find this so odd, the gall of the forker who literally started with someone else's code then, after asking about a collab, told them "sorry, I think better." So weird. Ah well, 7 years old, I'm sure they've both gotten over it.

Some may find this interesting: https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/issues/4 https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/issues/4

by IE6 5y ago

Some may find this interesting: https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/issues/4 https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/issues/4

xeromal 5y ago

Thanks for sharing! What a fun read!

humbleharbinger 5y ago

A fun read indeed. I wonder about the insistence on keeping it less than 20k loc? Is that the developer basically saying "this problem can and should be solved in less than 20k lines?"

Cthulhu_ 5y ago
Looks like it; the author also says he sticks to certain paradigms like an indentation style I've not seen in the wild before and making as many things as possible 'const'. I don't mind, I can respect people having Strong Opinions, it's an improvement over having too weak opinions which lead to inconsistencies in a codebase.
- chris37879 5y ago
  I'm guilty of the const / final thing... it really does help in the language I use for work all the time, but that's because its compiler and analyzer are built around using those hints to do static analysis in my editor.

Arainach 5y ago

The author's views on code seem rather opinionated in general. Their thoughts on internationalization in particular go against all best practices in the pursuit of clean code dogma: https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/tree/master/WinDirStat https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/tree/master/WinDirS... I'm amused that the author rants about the importance of being able to easily analyze code and then wants to produce (presumably) a different binary per language to analyze all over. Their commit messages are also rather colorful. This is an interesting project, but seemingly not someone I'd enjoy working with.

zombittack 5y ago

fwiw, we went from in-memory to sqlite and had massive performance gains for a language model trie we were working with in an app. Best part: cross-platform! I just find this so odd, the gall of the forker who literally started with someone else's code then, after asking about a collab, told them "sorry, I think better." So weird. Ah well, 7 years old, I'm sure they've both gotten over it.