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by Skinney 6y ago
But probably only when the battery is in the 10-20% capacity range, right? It doesn't say in the article, but I wonder if these batteries can charge 100 miles per 5 minutes for a larger range than current vehicles. I'd happily cha
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How Elm inspired Play(fossils.play-lang.dev)
2 points by Skinney 6y ago|0 comments
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by Skinney 6y ago
To me, that is Forth.
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by Skinney 6y ago
It’s more that bytes aren’t necessary for the first few releases, and it will probably not be all that exciting to implement, so I’d rather focus on other things. Same with arrays.
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by Skinney 6y ago
Quite pleasent :) Compilers are really just pure functions of String -> String/Bytes, so a pure functional language is a pretty good fit. Besides, I know Elm like the back of my hand. I’d probably write in Elm even if it was a poor
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by Skinney 6y ago
Self-thought developer. Java, kotlin and Elm (fullstack) is my day job. Core contributor to Elm. If you want to create a language that can run in browsers, you either need to target js or wasm. Wasm seemed like the better fit (i’m done with
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by Skinney 6y ago
I see your point, but in my experience way more people have heard of Forth than "concatinative language", and of those that have heard of Forth most associate it with stack oriented programming, which is at the heart of Play. Fort
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by Skinney 6y ago
Like you I just really like the idea of it. It's self-hosting, and it keeps all tickets, wiki and forum posts inside the repo, so that I can work on things offline and do backups very easily. Fossil doesn't support basic code revi
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by Skinney 6y ago
I love historical facts like these. Thank you for sharing!
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by Skinney 6y ago
I don't plan to. I'm sure word redefinition is nice in certain cases, but it's not something I'm looking for in a pure and immutable language.
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by Skinney 6y ago
Didn't know about StrongForth. As for Kitten, I didn't like the syntax. To me the interesting thing about Forth-like languages is the postfix/rpn syntax, which Kitten moves to far away from. I really liked how `if` in Factor
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by Skinney 6y ago
Well, it's too late now.
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by Skinney 6y ago
I did consider it, but decided against it because I thought «statically typed» and «Forth» made it obvious, and I’m not a fan of long titles.
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by Skinney 6y ago
Depends, are you talking about holes as in a type annotation that let’s the compiler help you figure out the type, or holes as in bugs or missing functionality? In the first case, no, but I see the utility and might add it in later. In the
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by Skinney 6y ago
I realised that the code I found most readable were always in a pipeline, regardless of language (java: `one().two().three()`, lisp: `(-> one two three)`, Elm: `one |> two |> three`, etc) and I wondered what it would be like to pro
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by Skinney 6y ago
It compiles, ahead of time, to low level web assembly.
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by Skinney 6y ago
Yes.
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by Skinney 6y ago
I'm the creator of the language, AMA.
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Play: Statically typed Forth, compiled to WASM(play-lang.dev)
104 points by Skinney 6y ago|47 comments
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by Skinney 6y ago
Clojure has line comments as well.
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by Skinney 6y ago
Apple does all machine learning on-device. So stuff like handwriting recognition, Siri, automatic improvements of photos etc. makes heavy use of it.
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by Skinney 6y ago
I picked up a Clojure project I wrote three-four years ago last month and upgraded it to all its latest dependencies. No breaking changes. The HTML-based applications I've written going back the last six years all still work on modern
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by Skinney 6y ago
> To me, the Go approach takes your approach to major upgrades - reserve them for when you do something like rewriting the API. That's to me isn't a good assumption to bake in, I'd like to change a single function signatur
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by Skinney 6y ago
Were I work we have several internal libraries. When we crossed the point were one library was used in more than 3 services, we stopped doing breaking changes because it was simply to time consuming to upgrade to the next major version of t
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by Skinney 6y ago
If you're introducing breaking changes once per month, then your library really isn't ready. Tell people you have an unstable library. Breaking changes _will_ happen. Then, when you've used your library in production for a wh
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by Skinney 6y ago
There is a big gap between "breaking changes every month" and every couple of years.
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by Skinney 6y ago
Roughly speaking: smaller index size = greater performance. The index also has to be read from disk (if not already in memory), which is faster the smaller it is. But also, once in memory, smaller size makes key-lookups or traversals faster
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by Skinney 6y ago
I started using Emacs simply because there was no other editor or IDE which had good Clojure (my language of choice at the time) support. After a while, I started noticing how sluggish IDE’s and electron-based editors are. I’m now a vim use
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by Skinney 6y ago
LLVM bitcode is, I believe, not portable. Neither is Assembly. Nor are the resulting binaries of that processed something that is run within a sandbox.
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by Skinney 6y ago
> To get good performance, don't WebAssembly implementations need to use JIT-compilation internally? No. JITs are great when you're executing code which is very dynamic in nature (either because of dynamic types, or because you

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