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All my programming life has been in higher-level languages, yet with Rust I'm being inexplicably drawn to down and dirty systems programming. It's cool to final

All my programming life has been in higher-level languages, yet with Rust I'm being inexplicably drawn to down and dirty systems programming. It's cool to finally be able to use :make and all the C-oriented things like [i and ]i, ctags and the like. It's interesting seeing how much 'dogfooding' vim has in that tons of stuff are undoubtedly geared towards his own needs developing vim (and C applications in general.) Pretty much how I work with coding products, I work my best when I'm the use case, and great open source products like vi/vim and emacs excel in that legions of people share the creator's use case (and well, configurability right down to the bone.) I've found that a non-trivial amount of people do share the use case for the first project I've launched[1], I only hope for it to hold true for my most ambitious ones in the working. I don't know Bram, but I can't help but wonder why such a distinguished open source figure has ultimately ended up working for Google. Maybe he enjoys the access to resources. I wish donations could still support him directly rather than his idea of aid (well it does seem to have a bend towards education at least). I wish he wouldn't need a day job and could yet breed other new and great contributions to the world. I don't feel particularly endeared towards Google, despite all the collateral good it has done while doing a lot of evil (i.e. something to do with the looming ad empire strengthening big corporations.) [1]: https://github.com/goldfeld/vim-seek https://github.com/goldfeld/vim-seek

virtuz 13y ago
With Go I feel the same way – after a long time with interpreted languages it's a breath of fresh air using a strictly typed and statically compiled language. About your point with Bram and Google, though, I can understand it. The people you're around and the environment you're in must feel so much better than working on open-source by yourself, especially with the 20% of free time you get to work on whatever you'd like. I can't take anything else than you're jumping on the google hate bandwagon here, which I'd love to know why. As a side note, I'd love to hear everyone's responses as to why they love Go but hate Google. Odd. (Disclaimer, I don't know Bram but know that in an environment that fosters people you get much more done and excel much faster).
gbog 13y ago
I use ctags with Python, PHP and I'm sure it will works with most other languages invented.

virtuz 13y ago

With Go I feel the same way – after a long time with interpreted languages it's a breath of fresh air using a strictly typed and statically compiled language. About your point with Bram and Google, though, I can understand it. The people you're around and the environment you're in must feel so much better than working on open-source by yourself, especially with the 20% of free time you get to work on whatever you'd like. I can't take anything else than you're jumping on the google hate bandwagon here, which I'd love to know why. As a side note, I'd love to hear everyone's responses as to why they love Go but hate Google. Odd. (Disclaimer, I don't know Bram but know that in an environment that fosters people you get much more done and excel much faster).

gbog 13y ago

I use ctags with Python, PHP and I'm sure it will works with most other languages invented.