90s_dev

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by 90s_dev 1y ago
SEEKING WORK RELUCTANTLY I don't really have that many skills. The most complex thing I've made is https://docs.os.90s.dev/ Email me if it matches up with stuff you need done: admin@90s.dev
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Changes Since Lua 5.4(lua.org)
2 points by 90s_dev 1y ago|0 comments
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
As a TypeScript fan, I was really happy to read pretty much every one of these changes. This is a language I wouldn't personally use unless it gains massive traction, but one that I hope it gains massive traction so that I can justify
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Some features like break N and default function args seem to be incompatible with the vanilla lua vm.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Tried the reddit thing, funny story. I tried to post to the wasm sub and it said it was restricted. I posted to webdev and they said maybe try posting it at the programminglanguages sub. So I tried there and they deleted it! I don't un
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Basically a more convenient/intuitive Lua for JS/C/Java/C++ users, plus optional static typing. May in fact use this instead of Lua.
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Pluto is a unique dialect of Lua with a focus on general-purpose programming(github.com)
77 points by 90s_dev 1y ago|40 comments
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Wait, was this language guided by AI???
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Oh hey you're the guy who made the crafting interpreters book, that was really helpful when I went through my wanting to make a langauge phase, thanks for making a great book. Also yeah seems like they reinvented null pointer crashes b
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Oh yeah, in fact that's where I saw it and what made me think to post it here. Oops.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Right, so check if it's null. In practice, you do it just as often in C as you check for std::nullopt in C++ or std::option::ok in Rust etc.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
C has non-nullable types too. Only one type can be null in C, and in that event it signifies an absence of a value of that type.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
They didn't announce it, I posted it here out of curiosity to see what other people think about it. I hope they're not very upset about that ':)
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
As I looked up Carbon over the past week, every comment on it was always that nobody uses it because it's going to be eventually https://killedbygoogle.com/
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Best of both worlds of Rust and Zig? C/C++ ABI compatibility? No runtime? Borrow checking with less strictness? Seems too good to be true.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
See also https://www.ethiocloud.com/bunnascript.aspx and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...
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Helix: A Modern, High-Performance Language(github.com)
41 points by 90s_dev 1y ago|58 comments
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I am making a few programs that takes everything I've learned from the 6 months writing 90s.dev and turns them into useful applications. One of them I'm going to release within a few weeks, it aims to be a modern dos+qbasic experi
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I have tried a few times to learn shaders, but it always feels like I'm about 20 years behind on all sorts of random but necessary facts about shaders with no way to catch up in a reasonable timeframe. This book looks like it could hel
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I forgot to mention that I'd like it to be embeddable. I was in the zig subreddit and asked about that, they said basically no it's not possible to embed it, the best that can be done is bundle zig with my app and run it as a subp
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Thanks I'll give it a try.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
One thing it's missing is arrays/structs as a way to access memory more conveniently, which I think is probably a must-have, though I bet I could add them on top of this language with how small it looks. Well, except that it'
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I am leaning towards curlywas strangely enough. It just feels like the right language somehow. Not too low level to be boring to write, not too high level to take the fun out of writing low level code, not too old to consider it abandoned,
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Ask HN: Languages Designed for WASM?
6 points by 90s_dev 1y ago|12 comments
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I tried for a few days to embed clang as a lib just to get it to compile to wasm and got so close and I might pick that project up again because I think it would be a really exciting and fun app.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Animal Well has an item called "flying disc" or something since Frisbee is TM. To google something has for decades for millenials meant search online in any way. Trademark law is dumb and inconvenient. Only people owning trademark
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Nothing in this is particularly exciting. When will we finally get static types???
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What's Coming to JavaScript(deno.com)
2 points by 90s_dev 1y ago|1 comments
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I can't help but think the borrow checker alone would slow this down by at least 1 or 2 orders of magnitude.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
You're right. I am going to leave HN. Clearly I am not smart enough to be here. Everything I have said here in the past month has been proven wrong by a commenter, and it has gradually dawned on me that I'm just not as smart or ex

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